Android-Arduino BTCOMM do-it-yourself (DIY) Shield Versions 1.0 and 2.0

Amarino Shield


This kit has retired, but, we have upgraded it. Please CLICK HERE FOR THE UPGRADED AMARINO SHIELD. The upgraded version of Amarino is a better kit with additional features.

Fully assembled kit is also available on buildcircuit.net.


About “Android- Arduino Bluetooth Communication (BTCOMM) DIY Shield- Version 1.0 and 2.0” : If you are interested in controlling your Arduino with Android phone or Arduino Serial Terminal and if you are an Amarino enthusiast, then, here’s an easy do-it-yourself (DIY) shield for you. The DIY shield set consists of the following components: amarino kit new

Fully assembled kit is also available on buildcircuit.net.

The PCB  IMG_1457

CD4094BE/HCF4094BE- 1 pc

Components

This is 8 bit shift register. The chip is used for decimal to binary conversion experiment.

16pin DIL Socket- 1 pc

Components

LED- 3mm- 10pcs- 8 pcs same color(red/white/blue/green/yellow) and 2 pcs different colors (can be any color)

led-3mm-red-diffused-x10

Miniature3mmLED

The LEDs are use for CD4094 experiments.

LED- 5mm-White/Yellow/Blue/Red- color- 1 pc  [SHOULD BE VERY BRIGHT]

Pink5mmLED

This LED is used for Amarino- Sensor Graph Experiment.

LM35- temperature sensor- 1 pc.

Components

LM35 is used for Amarino and remote temperature sensing experiments.

RGB LED- Common cathode- 1 pc

RGB LED

RGB LED is used for Amarino- RGB Multicolor Lamp experiment.

LDR- 1pc.

Components

LDR is used for Amarino- Sensor Graph experiment.

Female header- 4 pin – 1 pc.

tn_1x4_female_header

Resistors- 220Ohm(14pcs) and 10k(1pc)

220R resistor10k_resistor

Stackable headers- 6 pin header(3 pcs) and 8 pin header(2 pcs).

stakable header6 pin header

Besides these components, you also need a Bluetooth Adapter. You can buy Bluetooth adapters from the following links:

a. BlueSMiRF- Bluetooth Mate Silver– This module is cheaper than other BlueSMiRF versions.

The shield works with other modules also, but you can only stack Bluetooth Mate Silver on to this shield.

b. General Bluetooth Adapter
Features:

    • CD4094- 8 Bit shift register- evaluation circuit.
    • RGB LED.
    • Light dependent resistor ( LDR) based light sensor.
    • LM35-temperature sensor.
    • Perfect for testing Amarino and all Android serial emulators.
    • Provides space for BlueSMiRF mate silver and General Bluetooth adapter.You can also use other adapters, but you need to connect those with Breadboard and extra wires. 
    • These two adaptors are only supported by the shield
    • Works great with Arduino, with tons of example codes.
    • Tested and verified at BuildCircuit.com Lab.
    • The shield has been designed to suit ARDUINO UNO R3 because of its placement of reset switch (just makes easier !). However, the shield works perfectly with other versions of Arduino also.

reset switch (3)

    • In case you need to reset the shield, use a piece of wire and connect reset pin to GND for a short moment.

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CHECK OUT THE TUTORIAL FOR ASSEMBLING THE SHIELD 

CIRCUIT LAYOUT- see how the components are connected to Arduino.

try this also

Fully assembled kit is also available on buildcircuit.net.

EXPERIMENTS


CD4094- 8 Bit Shift Register Evaluation circuit

You can use Android- Arduino shield for doing several experiments with CD4094. Some examples are given below:

Example 1: CD4094 control with  Arduino- Basic Experiment- WITHOUT SMART PHONE Example 2: CD4094 control with Android emulator and Arduino

AMARINO EXPERIMENTS:

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(Note: The Arduino sketch for this experiment is slightly different from the original source codes from Amarino. The extra codes on the sketch deactivates the CD4094 chip. It is necessary to deactivate CD4094, because the power is shared with the chip and it affects your experiments. The deactivating code has been given on each Arduino sketch.)

RGB LED control using Amarino, Android and Arduino

RGB LED control using Amarino and BlueSMiRF Bluetooth Adaptor

Experiment with LED controller and LDR

LDR based light sensor data on Amarino interface.

Experiment with LED controller and LM35-temperature sensor

LM35- temperature data on Amarino Interface and simultaneous LED control

try this also
Fully assembled kit is also available on buildcircuit.net.

Assembly instructions for Amarino 3.0 DIY shield

Step 13- Solder stackable header

This post gives you the idea for assembling the Amarino shield. To get full details about this shield,  CLICK HERE.  When you buy the kit package, you will get the following PCB. The PCB clearly shows the pin and component names, so, it should help you to get idea of connections of components to Arduino.  For example, LDR is connected to A1 and RGB LED is connected is to D3, D5 and D6 and you can see those pins labeled on the PCB. (more…)

Amarino DIY shield for Android-Arduino-Bluetooth experiments

We are now selling Amarino Nano 1.0 kit for Amarino experiments. It is fully assembled kit and includes Arduino Nano and Bluetooth module. You can easily test RGB LED and sensor graph features of Amarino toolkit app.

 Please check this page for more information. 

Amarino Nano-1-1


About Amarino Shield

Amarino shield in use (2)

Amarino shield can be used for doing several experiments with Amarino and Android serial emulators. For example, you can operate a multicolor lamp, sensor graph, light sensor, etc.

The shield is just a modification of previous shield designed and published by Sagar Sapkota (Buildcircuit.com). Amarino shield 3.0 has added one more header space for BlueSMiRF supporting altogether 3 different Bluetooth adapters.

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MicroSD card breakout board – buildcircuit.com

Most of the microcontrollers have  limited built-in storage. For example, Arduino UNO (Atmega328)has 1Kbytes of EEPROM storage and it might not be enough for all projects. If your project has any graphics, video, audio and data logging feature, you need a removal storage in it.

microsd (more…)

Amarino shield 3.0 experiments- Android and Arduino

On this post, you will see how Amarino shield can be used for Android- Arduino experiments. It shows some basic experiments with android serial emulator and Amarino toolkit. You can get the original Amarino source codes and installable files also. Just install the application on your Android phone and experiment with the kit.

This page basically gives examples for using Amarino 3.0, but you can also use the same source codes for Amarino shields 1.0 and 2.0.

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4 in 1 DIY kit- dark sensor, latch circuit, astable multivibrator and clap switch

This is a simple 4-in-1 do-it-yourself (DIY) kit from BuildCircuit. The kit has four different circuits that can be switched on separately or together at a time using a DIP switch.

The four circuits are:

1. Dark sensor using LDR.

2. A latch circuit using NE555 timer.

3. Astable circuit using NE555 timer.

4. A clap-switch circuit using NE555 timer.

Besides these 4 circuits, by changing the values of the resistors and capacitors, you can change the behaviour of the circuits. (more…)

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