What We Will Be Building

I have always been fascinated by light and the ability to control different light sources through technology. I have been lucky enough to work on some interesting projects that involve controlling light and making it interact with people. Arduino is really good at this.

We will be working on how to design interactive lamps, using Arduino as a way to learn the basics of how interactive devices are built. Remember, though, that Arduino doesn’t really understand, or care, what you connect to the output pins. Arduino just turns the pin HIGH or LOW, which could be controlling a light, or an electric motor, or your car engine.

In the next section, we’ll explain the basics of electricity in a way that would bore an engineer but won’t scare a new Arduino programmer.