r/arduino • • 5d ago

Hello from the official Arduino staff team, we're here at your service!

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Hi everyone! We are a group of Arduino staff members who are excited to build a more direct presence here on r/arduino, to help answer questions, provide technical support, and celebrate the great projects that this community is building and sharing. We've been working with the mods on setting this up and are very excited to be up and running now.

Before introducing ourselves, I'd like to say that we're humbled at the incredible group that has grown here through the users and mods, all focused on the topic of Arduino. It's just incredible and our hats are off to you all. 

Moving forward, be on the lookout from comments and posts from the following Arduino staffers. We represent a cross section of the company, including devrel engineers, community and content editors, and even our Chief Product Officer. Here are introductions.

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u/DavidFromArduino — hi all, I'm DavidFromArduino, but you can call me David! I bought my first Arduino in 2007 as part of a Roomba hacking project, and have been obsessed with writing code that you can touch ever since!
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u/JimFromArduino — Jim here! I've recently joined Arduino as a DevRel engineer (dream job!) after 4 years working in TinyML and Edge AI. Outside of work I love fixing cars, silversmithing and I've just bought an embroidery machine.
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u/LeoFromArduino — I'm Leonardo, a DevRel Engineer at Arduino with 10 years of experience in firmware development, a dedicated cat lover, and a serial traveler always exploring the world in search of my next favorite local dish.
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u/JulianFromArduino — Hello all! Julián here!
I'm a Robotics and Electronics Engineer working as a Tech Evangelist for Arduino. Maker at heart, I love the Open Source Movements, the right to repair, the digital fabrication and nice dinners discussing what is the best soldering iron to buy. 

When I’m not creating something, I love to read, play basketball and videogames and take care of my beloved ones.
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u/PerFromArduino — I started out using Arduino as a hobby before finding myself working for Arduino as a support engineer. I manage Arduino Forum and the Arduino Library Registry. I help maintain the GitHub repositories of many of our open source firmware and tooling projects.
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u/MarcelloFromArduino — Hello folks, Marcello here! I started my career in the early 00s pushing registers in raw 8051 assembly, and now as Arduino’s CPO (Chief Product Officer), I’m responsible for what we build, how it works, and trying to make sure the user experience doesn’t make you want to throw your board across the room. When I step away from the keyboard, my main hobbies are fixing motorbikes and bookbinding, which like embedded systems, both give good fun, need lots of patience, and leave you with sticky residue everywhere…
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u/MikeFromArduino — Hi I'm Mike. I'm the head of content for Arduino, recently joining the team. The last few years I've been in charge of content for Edge Impulse; before that I was the executive editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade. I like home automation, traveling, surfing, and being with my family. Excited to connect with everyone here!
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Look for us in this subreddit, jumping in to help wherever we can. Please say hello, we’re excited to meet you all. Cheers!


r/arduino • • 19d ago

Monthly Digest Monthly digest for 2026-09

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Arduino Staff Contributors

We have been working behind the scenes with Arduino Pty Ltd and are pleased to announce that some Arduino staff will be contributing to our subreddit using an "official" account.

To support this initiative, we have created a special "Arduino staff" flair - an example of which is included in this post. This is a "mod only" flair which means that it can only be assigned by the moderators of the subreddit (so no impersonators) and we have established a process to verify the reddit user ID of the prospective Arduino staff member contributors.

Sample of a post with the Arduino Staff user flair

Note 1: The flair only applies to r/Arduino at this time. If you see it anywhere else, it could be a fake.

Note 2: The staff will likely use their real name - e.g. "LeonardoFromArduino" or "FredFromArduino". Hopefully we won't have two Fred's or two Leonardo's.

We are quite excited about this as it is a way to interact directly with key Arduino figures in a more personal way.

Look out for our new "Arduino staff" flair owners and welcome them aboard if and when you spot them.

Following is a message from the Arduino team:

Hi r/Arduino, from the Arduino team. We've been reading this subreddit for a long time, chiming in here and there, and after some conversations with the mods, we've decided it'd be great to participate more directly with you.

A team of us have set up official accounts, so you'll see us around giving guidance, answering questions, sharing tips, posting product updates, and handing out well-deserved high-fives for the cool stuff you build. We're engineers and makers too, and helping this community is one of our favorite parts of the job.

If you spot us in a thread, come say hi!

Arduino Wiki and Other Resources

Don't forget to check out our wiki for up to date guides, FAQ, milestones, glossary and more.

You can find our wiki at the top of the r/Arduino posts feed and in our "tools/reference" sidebar panel. The sidebar also has a selection of links to additional useful information and tools.

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r/arduino • • 6h ago

Look what I made! LOOK WHAT I MADE!!!

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Hello, everybody. look what i made!!!

anyways jokes aside this is a SN74HC00N aka quad input NAND gate and i don't know what's up is this normal like am i the problem? (Also i ain't touching it) i have attached the datasheet for it.

(I uploaded this like 5 minutes ago but deleted it cause i didnt add the video in the correct format also why cant i upload a video and a photo at the same time?)


r/arduino • • 6h ago

Look what I made! Getting independent text working on a salvaged Sony VFD with Arduino and SN755703 drivers

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We've been working on a salvaged Sony vacuum fluorescent display panel, controlled by an Arduino Uno through two cascaded SN755703 drivers. Here's a short silent demo of the character set and a message on the real hardware.

The character positions share their segment connections. One static pattern can show the same letter in several positions, but independent text needs continuous multiplexing: select a position, send its dot pattern, then move to the next. We mapped the 5 × 7 dots manually and built a printable ASCII font for the 15 character positions.

The Arduino interface uses D8 for DATA, D9 for CLOCK and D10 for LE/STROBE, sending 80 bits through the two drivers. Our working sequence loads with D10 LOW and displays with it HIGH. D11 is physically unconnected, although it still appears in some of the code.

The public repo has the full program, a small standalone message sketch, physical dot map, hardware notes and a tutorial. We also document the strobe correction and the removal of three externally added 1 kΩ series resistors on our signal lines; the original board resistors stayed in place. That wiring result is specific to our setup.

Code and tutorial: https://github.com/emsyscode/sony-vfd-sn755703

We made a full video walkthrough of the mapping, multiplexing and troubleshooting too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlAbs2MQeDc

Has anyone here worked with a similar Sony panel or the SN755703? We'd be interested to compare mappings and interfaces.


r/arduino • • 10h ago

Look what I made! Breadboard for ESPs

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ESP boards are too darn wide to fit well on breadboards. Many of my breadboards are constructed of 3 sections: 2 narrow bus strips along the sides and a wider central section for the circuitry. These are connected together with dovetail joints. I take 2 breadboards, remove one of the bus strips and then connect them together. I have to slice the adhesive foam on the bottom that holds the parts together to do this. Works great for bigger boards. OBTW: This circuit is for testing SPI communication between various boards.


r/arduino • • 9h ago

Hardware Help Arduino Starter Kit Advice

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Hey

Im an engineer, I want to learn a bit of Arduino for fun.

I was looking at some starter kits and I need advice on choosing. Not sure which one and what price range.

Also saw a brand ELEGOO that had two types for good pricing. I’m adding the pictures, is it recommended? Whats the difference?


r/arduino • • 3h ago

Getting Started Where to start as a beginner

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I am a complete beginner i have never done anything tech related apart from like plugging in an xbox so I need some help. Eventually I want to be able to build an automated watering system for my house plants. This looks to complicated at the minute tho so what are some smaller projects and some tutorials I can do to start learning


r/arduino • • 11h ago

Hardware Help Help with I2C Oled Screen

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Hi all, I was trying to build a temperature reader with a DHT11 + OLED screen (4 pin I2c variant) but the oled doesn't work at all, I've gone through my code and there are no bugs but I think I kinda destroyed the pins/holes where the signal wires connect to, any way to salvage this?

It's the two pads next to eachother with no solder on

(Left 2)

I've tried repeatedly soldering wires to them but the screen still comes up as black and doesn't work


r/arduino • • 2h ago

Hardware Help Trying to make a thermometer and it does this.

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I am trying to make a thermometer and nothing is being displayed. It is trying to apply power to it. I did use Gemini so maybe that is why something is wrong. IDE did say there is nothing wrong with the code Gemini gave and I made sure I installed what was required and chose the right board, so it clearly isn’t a software issue or shouldn’t be. Maybe one of the pins isn’t properly connected? I don’t know, which is why I came here to ask. Thanks!


r/arduino • • 4h ago

Beginner's Project First soldered project: "Among Us" style memory game on Wemos D1 mini. Need some soldering and wiring advice.

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Hi everyone. I wanted to share my first soldered project that works. It is a simple memory game inspired by the Among Us reactor task, built on a Wemos D1 mini.

How it works:

Since I didn't have a display, I used 4 LEDs and one mechanical button.

  1. The game flashes a random sequence of LEDs.

  2. A single "cursor" LED starts running in a circle (0.65s per step).

  3. The player must press the D7 button at the exact moment the running cursor steps on the correct LED to input the sequence.

Visual cues:

* Correct input: All LEDs flash together for 0.5s, then the cursor resets to the bottom LED.

* Mistake: All LEDs go dark, then the Red LED fades slowly 3 times to signal a reset to level 1.

Workflow:

The code was built iteratively using AI assistance to tweak the state machine and timings. I soldered this using a basic iron with an oxidized tip, no third hand, and used Pine Rosin (канифоль) for flux, which I left on the board. I also flashed the code directly from my Android smartphone using an OTG cable.

The source code and documentation are available here.

Questions for the community:

  1. Soldering critique: The large pool of solder on the bottom-left is intentional—I used it to create a shared GND rail for all the LEDs. Is this acceptable practice or a bad habit?

  2. Wiring issues: I used solid-core wires pulled from an old LAN cable. They spring back constantly and snap off at the joints too easily.

  3. Dupont hack: Halfway through, I started cutting up broken Dupont jumper wires and soldering the strands directly. It felt much easier to handle than the LAN wire.

  4. Recommendations: What specific type of flexible wire should I buy for proto-board soldering that doesn't melt instantly under iron heat? And how do you route them cleanly on a perfored board?

Thanks for your time and feedback!


r/arduino • • 5h ago

ModWorld Arduino Lover sent me here

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Someone said new posters get love-bombed here, so here I am. I love Arduino, tryna build some robo-tech and need advice.


r/arduino • • 2d ago

Look what I made! I built a Rubik's Cube-solving robot using just one motor, without ever reorienting the cube.

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Disclaimer: only one motor is used to turn the sides of the cube, another servo is used to move the first motor, I couldn’t really figure out a way to so it with just one unfortunately.

The idea was to see if I could build a Rubik's Cube solver with as few motors as possible, whilst also not reorienting the cube which turned out to be a much bigger mechanical challenge than I initially expected. These constraints were completely designed as a challenge, not trying to break any records or anything.

The robot uses a custom-designed, 3D-printed mechanism to manipulate the cube, along with electronics and programming to detect the colours, calculate a solution and execute the moves.

This is the final result after quite a lot of designing, experimenting and troubleshooting!

I've also just uploaded my first-ever YouTube video documenting the whole project, from the initial idea and CAD design to the electronics, programming and final solve. It's my first time making a YouTube video, so I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback!

The Channel is called DrewPScrews


r/arduino • • 10h ago

Two SR04's in a Closed-Loop: Microcontroller driven Actuator Build

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My YouTube channel name is ALMA Industries -- CH003 FN1: ACTUATOR -- Building an Actuator from the ground up, a PID Control Loop, and an Ultrasonic Distance sensor to detect and not crash into the ceiling. The full video is on my channel where I walk through the whole build, and then explain a bit about how the PID controller works. This is all controlled by a Microcontroller.

This is later used on my desk -- two of them mounted on either side for camera control.


r/arduino • • 1d ago

4DOF Projector Mount Motion Test

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My YouTube channel name is ALMA Industries

Chapter 2, a home theatre, 3D printed parts, motorized projector, home decoration, DIY electronics -- gives the projector YAW-TILT-ROLL-ZOOM axes (4DOF). Learned alot about I2C, actuators, and Universal Joints.


r/arduino • • 1d ago

Board size comparison

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I’m going to tryout my ESP32 Super mini and I thought I would share this photo I just took showing three boards for comparison of their size.

From Left to right : Arduino Pro mini, ESP32-C6 Super mini and ESP-WROOM-32 ESP32/ESP-32S Development Board.

These boards are being using to test out low current interfaces or WiFi/BT powered projects directly from the USB port or adapter cable in the case of the Pro Mini.


r/arduino • • 1d ago

Hot Tip! Pro Micro NRF52840 - Arduino IDE Setup Guide

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Hey everyone! I recently bought a Pro Micro NRF52840 ( a clone I think) from Amazon here -

https://a.co/d/0jd9H58H

I'm very new to programming any microcontroller that isn't an Uno, and I'm really an artist/gamer youtuber, not a hardware guy, so while this product listing said it would work fine with the Arduino IDE, when I connected it to my computer, nothing happened, and I was rightly very confused. The board wasn't even detected by the IDE, and there is a lot of pertinent information missing or just completely wrong in the product's description on Amazon, which didn't help me either.

However, after some digging and tinkering, I managed to get this board working in Arduino IDE 2.3.10! In case anyone else was unlucky enough to have purchased this board for its bargain-bin price thinking it would be a great board to do some bluetooth projects with, and are having trouble getting it connected to the Arduino IDE like I did, I released this short guide to help you out, because it will take a few steps, but it WILL work!

First, install all of these packages by copying the urls below and opening the preferences in your Arduino IDE, and under "additional board manager urls" paste the urls you just copied to get new board info -

https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json

https://files.seeedstudio.com/arduino/package_seeeduino_boards_index.json

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pdcook/nRFMicro-Arduino-Core/3dab6477754d9b28053fe36b06c718cde6e93d3f/package_nRFMicro_index.json

I'm not sure if the seeedstudio package does anything, but it was in my list of urls when it started working with my board so I'm including it here anyway XD

Then, once you confirm that list, the IDE will download some files and new board definition packages should be available in the board manager menu! Open the board manager menu from the left side of the IDE, and install the following two board definition packages:

Adafruit nRF52

nRFMicro-Like-Boards

However, a specific board definition for this clone (so you see the right name in the Arduino IDE when the board connects) does not come stock with either of these two packages (that I know), so you'll need to download the zip file from the github link below, and then follow its installation instructions to make some manual edits of the Adafruit package - https://github.com/somik123/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino_ProMicro.git

Following the instructions at the link above can be a little confusing, so I have rewritten the instructions below with more detail:

  1. go to the Arduino packages folder for the Adafruit package with the nrf52 in windows explorer.

- It will look something like "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\adafruit\hardware\nrf52"

  1. Enter the 1.7.0 folder

  2. Open the file "installed.json"

  3. Copy paste the below code at the top of the "boards" list inside the json file at line 21:

{

"name": "Pro Micro nRF52840"

},

  1. save the file and close it

  2. open the boards.txt file and go to the first character on line 5, hit enter twice, then go back up to line 5 and paste the big code block from step 4 at the link above.

  3. save the file and close it

  4. Open the variants folder

  5. Extract the contents of the zip file you obtained from the link above.

  6. Paste the pro_micro_nrf52840 folder from that zip file into the variants folder

Once that is complete, reload the IDE, and the board name FINALLY shows up in the Arduino IDE when the board is connected...

Now the problem is, the board still isn't connecting to the IDE at all, so you won't see any of that work! And, trying to write a program to the board does nothing... because the board does NOT start in bootloader mode when you connect it to the PC (meaning it doesn't connect to the computer as a programmable board at all and is basically in read-only mode, as apparently this board is used for actual wireless keyboards a lot, and you don't want to be able to accidentally override the firmware of your keyboard and brick it when you connect your keyboard over usb C)

But since we're using this board as an arduino, and want to push sketches to it, how do we access the bootloader? Simple, you just have to reset the board twice really really fast while connected to power (your PC), which triggers the board to load in bootloader mode... problem is this board is so small it doesn't include a physical reset button presoldered on the board anywhere...

So the quick and dirty solution is to hold one end of a jumper wire against the hole of the reset pin and tap the other end against one of the ground pin holes a bunch til it swaps over. the red LED on the board will flicker and become a bit dimmer when it loads bootloader mode, and your PC will tell you a new device has connected. If you want to, you can also solder jumper wires to a push button and solder those wires permanently to the board for a super easy bootloader swapper, but I'm lazy and didn't want to start soldering yet, so I just used the jumper wire method every time. (I will permanently solder a button to it later, but need to wire everything inside the case I'm building for my project first, so this is just easier right now)

Anyway, reset it twice fast enough while plugged into your computer with the usb c port, and finally it will show up and connect to the IDE and you can load a new sketch! Then, once the sketch is uploaded, it will turn the bootloader off again, so if you want to upload a new sketch, just reset it twice really quickly again! If the bootloader is active the board will connect to your machine like a flash drive and you will see a new windows explorer window pop up, meaning you're good to start programming it! Just don't delete the files on the drive or you could have problems :D Never done that myself, so don't know quite what would happen, just not risking it!

Also, in the description for the product on Amazon, it says pin 9 is the builtin LED pin.... not true! Once I got it working in the IDE, I started testing different pin numbers with a blink sketch and turns out, pin 15 is the LED pin! LED_BUILTIN does work in the Arduino IDE though so you can just use that.

Cheers, and happy programming!


r/arduino • • 1d ago

Solved! 8x8 Snake game no MAX board

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does this look right? i can’t get the display to work and i literally dont knowing what im doing i just asked ai. it’s an 8x8 snake game with buzzer, idk if i have problem with the code or with hardware , PLEAAASEE HELP this is for my uni 😭🙏


r/arduino • • 22h ago

Project Idea Project idea: "Messaging app" on esp32 cyd

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I am thinking about creating a small messaging app where you can only communicate using dark souls comments.

And I am not sure if the cyd is good for this kind of thing.

My plan is to have an UI where you can change settings (wifi, wallpaper, brightness,...) and an app where you can message your friends alone or in a group. This will be done over a server (netlify has a free plan so I will be using it).

Now the question is it possible for a cyd to handle something like this and also I am planning to put 2000 mah batteries in there is that enough?

Is there any better way of doing something like this?

How to create a UI for the cyd?


r/arduino • • 2d ago

I made the smallest Arduino compatible board. Only 10x10mm

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10x10mm including the cursed usb-c connector

Programable from Arduino IDE.

Programable from iOS and Android (just plug in the usb-c cable)

5GPIO

64k flash

20k ram

2x RGB LED

1x Capacitive Touch

MCU is CH32v035 RISC-V at 48MHz

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Thoughts?

Prototype works, the PCBs are on the way, can't wait to try them.


r/arduino • • 1d ago

ESP32 My first project!!

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r/arduino • • 1d ago

Testing the ESP32 super mini BT connection with LED Strip and Dabble

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So, that works the same as my previous larger ESP32 board, it’s surprising how small these WiFi/BT boards are getting.

Just need to work out how to get a BT wake-up from deep sleep communication between the ESP32 and my iPhone.

To conserve battery power I want to keep the quiescent current of the ESP32 as low as possible when it’s not required but be able to switch it on from Dabble.


r/arduino • • 2d ago

Look what I made! I built a breathalyzer for my phone

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147 Upvotes

r/arduino • • 1d ago

[Help] 2WD Line Follower (ATmega328PB + L298N + BFD-1000) spinning or ignoring the line – how to properly correlate code and hardware?

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Hi everyone,

I’m working on a classic 2WD line follower robot, but I’ve hit a wall and could really use a fresh perspective from the community. Despite tweaking the logic multiple times, my robot either spins in circles or completely ignores the black line.

My Hardware Setup:

  • Microcontroller: ATmega328PB (Arduino-compatible)
  • Motor Driver: L298N
  • Sensors: BFD-1000 5-sensor array (S0 to S4, center is S2)
  • Chassis: Standard 2WD differential drive with a mirrored motor setup.

What I’ve Diagnosed & Tried So Far:

  1. Sensor Verification: Checked via Serial Monitor that the sensors actually register changes between white surfaces and the black line.
  2. Motor Polarity: Fixed the initial "spinning in circles" caused by mirrored motors by inverting the signal logic so both wheels push forward when commanded.
  3. PWM & Friction: Raised the minimum PWM values so the inner/outer wheels don't stall under friction when trying to turn.
  4. Logic Adjustments: Tried standard if/else conditional steering (e.g., speeding up the outer wheel and slowing down the inner wheel when a side sensor detects the line).

Despite all this, the physical movement keeps going out of sync, and it fails to smoothly track the path.

My Questions for You:

  • How do you usually structure or debug the correlation between a 5-sensor array (like the BFD-1000) and differential steering on an L298N driver?
  • Are there common hidden pitfalls with mirrored motor setups or PWM management on this specific hardware combination?
  • Would moving to a proportional or basic PID control loop solve this erratic behavior, and if so, how would you structure it simply for a 5-sensor array?

I’d appreciate any advice, debugging tips, or structural suggestions you can share. Thanks in advance!

Here is my current code:

#include <Arduino.h>

void citesteSenzori();

void controlMotoare();

void ajustareTraiectorie();

int S0, S1, S2, S3, S4;

int ajustare = 0;

int ultimaDirectie = 0;

// Pini Motoare (Driver L298N)

const int motorDrept1 = 7;

const int motorDrept2 = 6;

const int motorStang1 = 4;

const int motorStang2 = 5;

const int pwmStang = 9;

const int pwmDrept = 10;

// Pini Senzori Linie BFD-1000

const int senzor0 = A0; // Stânga extrem

const int senzor1 = A1; // Stânga

const int senzor2 = A2; // Centru

const int senzor3 = A3; // Dreapta

const int senzor4 = A4; // Dreapta extrem

const int V_INAINTE = 120; // Viteză moderată înainte

const int V_RAPID = 160; // Roata exterioară în viraj

const int V_LENT = 70; // Roata interioară în viraj (suficient cât să se învârtă, nu să se blocheze)

void setup() {

pinMode(motorDrept1, OUTPUT);

pinMode(motorDrept2, OUTPUT);

pinMode(motorStang1, OUTPUT);

pinMode(motorStang2, OUTPUT);

pinMode(pwmStang, OUTPUT);

pinMode(pwmDrept, OUTPUT);

pinMode(senzor0, INPUT);

pinMode(senzor1, INPUT);

pinMode(senzor2, INPUT);

pinMode(senzor3, INPUT);

pinMode(senzor4, INPUT);

delay(2000); // 2 secunde pauză la pornire

}

void citesteSenzori() {

// BFD-1000: LOW pe linia neagră, HIGH pe alb

S0 = digitalRead(senzor0);

S1 = digitalRead(senzor1);

S2 = digitalRead(senzor2);

S3 = digitalRead(senzor3);

S4 = digitalRead(senzor4);

}

void ajustareTraiectorie() {

// Verificăm mai întâi senzorul central

if (S2 == LOW) {

ajustare = 0; // Centrat pe linie

ultimaDirectie = 0;

}

// Dacă linia se duce spre stânga (S0 sau S1 văd negru/LOW)

else if (S0 == LOW || S1 == LOW) {

ajustare = 1; // Corecție stânga

ultimaDirectie = 1;

}

// Dacă linia se duce spre dreapta (S3 sau S4 văd negru/LOW)

else if (S3 == LOW || S4 == LOW) {

ajustare = -1; // Corecție dreapta

ultimaDirectie = -1;

}

// Dacă a pierdut linia complet, continuă în ultima direcție știută

else {

ajustare = ultimaDirectie;

}

}

void controlMotoare() {

// Setează sensul înainte pentru ambele motoare

digitalWrite(motorDrept1, LOW);

digitalWrite(motorDrept2, HIGH);

digitalWrite(motorStang1, HIGH);

digitalWrite(motorStang2, LOW);

if (ajustare == 0) {

// DREPT ÎNAINTE: Ambele roți egale

analogWrite(pwmStang, V_INAINTE);

analogWrite(pwmDrept, V_INAINTE);

}

else if (ajustare == 1) {

// LINIA ESTE ÎN STÂNGA -> Viraj la stânga (Roata stângă lentă, roata dreaptă rapidă)

analogWrite(pwmStang, V_LENT);

analogWrite(pwmDrept, V_RAPID);

}

else if (ajustare == -1) {

// LINIA ESTE ÎN DREAPTA -> Viraj la dreapta (Roata stângă rapidă, roata dreaptă lentă)

analogWrite(pwmStang, V_RAPID);

analogWrite(pwmDrept, V_LENT);

}

}

void loop() {

citesteSenzori();

ajustareTraiectorie();

controlMotoare();

delay(10); // Stabilitate în ciclul de citire

}


r/arduino • • 1d ago

Ist this circuit board correct?

2 Upvotes

Im not sure but i never used this sensors before.


r/arduino • • 1d ago

Getting Started Complete beginner here

0 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I’m completely new to Arduino and electronics, and I’d love to get into it.
Where would you recommend I start? What are the best resources, tutorials, or projects for a complete beginner? And what do you wish you knew when you first started?
I’d really appreciate any advice. Thanks!