r/ArduinoHelp • u/petitcrocodiIe • 8d ago

how do i master arduino ?

can you guys recommand "big" projects that group specific skills to learn like a project that uses MOSFETs logic gates ect and another for motors ect so that at the end i know the basics of everything

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u/RDS_WAS_HERE 7d ago

A baby crawls before his walks.

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u/Rayzwave 8d ago

What does "how do I master Arduino" actually mean?

I'm not sure I even know what Arduino means, if you mean learning uC based electronics using an Arduino uC board through the Arduino IDE then I sort of understand what you are asking. But, I will let you into a secret, you will never master it all, this subject area is prone to change at any moment and upset you.

What are the basics?

The basics are still probably the same as they have ever been - get yourself a Arduino kit and start getting experience building projects. Although you can find example projects everywhere once you understand the basics of programming an Arduino board with say the blink program you can start experimenting on your own. The real fun starts when things go wrong, that's when you really start to learn and when you suddenly fix your problems yourself it gives you great satisfaction.

Decide what you want to learn about and start making baby steps, that's my advice and remember you'll never stop learning, that's just a fact of life.

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u/petitcrocodiIe 7d ago

by that i mean be able to pass and switch to a rasberri pi, my end goal is pretty much just doing random stuff in my room like robot arms that controls themselves and i can give them instructions

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u/SensoredHacker 8d ago

electrical engineering is the topic arduino is one group of products in a sea of millions.
go find some ewaste and reprogram something on it. make a 17" dell lcd screen say your name in the eeprom,
so that anyone plugging in your screen knows its your screen.

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u/gm310509 7d ago

A robot car of some kind?

Perhaps google Arduino example projects using a MOSFET and motor? That way you can peruse the results and pick some that are of sufficient complexity and interest to you.

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u/Humble_Anxiety_9534 7d ago

big project are more likely to fail than small one. I think it was work fills available time guy parkinson said it

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u/gm310509 3d ago

Given there is an almost infinite number of "things" and an even more infinite (if that even makes sense) ways of combining them, your goal to learn the basics of everything is unobtainable - nobody can do that.

Also, to try to learn the basics of a whole bunch of things in a big project is what is known as a "recipe for disaster", "a future train wreck", "biting off more than you can chew" and many other similar descriptors.

If you really wanted to learn the basics of stuff, you would take one thing and learn the basics of it. Then you do that for another thing and so on. These individual things become types of "lego brick". You can then combine them in interesting ways to do bigger and bigger projects.

The key is to take it step by step - not try to boil the ocean in a single big project.

All the best with it.