Errata

Errata for Getting Started with Arduino

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted By	Date submitted	Date corrected
Printed	Page 8 first paragraph	"This approach made the synthesizer look like an old telephone switch." I think you meant "switchboard". Note from the Author or Editor: Please change "switch" to "switchboard"	Anonymous	Oct 05, 2011
Printed	Page 11 1st paragraph	"Sniffin' Glue" is incorrectly credited as the source of the illustration featuring drawings of three guitar chords: "A - This is a chord. E - This is another, G - This is a third. Now form a band". This drawing originally appeared in December 1976 in another punk fanzine "Sideburns" citations: "A history of punk in 12-1/2 chapters". The Independent (The Independent). Wednesday, 31 May 2000. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/a-history-of-punk-in-12sup12sup-chapters-718283.html "Punk Music in Britain". h2g2 (BBC). 2002-10-7 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A791336 Note from the Author or Editor: Please add (this drawing originally appeared in the punk fanzine "Sideburns") Between "fanzine shown here" and ":"	BruceMiller	Oct 20, 2010
Printed	Page 15 Last sentence	"...and I have been using it every since" should be "...and I have been using it ever since".	Anonymous	Nov 02, 2008	Jun 01, 2009
Printed	Page 34 middle of page	"What you have just written and ran is a computer program..." Should be run.	Anonymous	Oct 05, 2011
Printed	Page 35 First sentence after "Arduino is not for Quitters."	"Arduino expects two functions to exists" should be "Arduino expects two functions to exist".	Jim Rothrock	Sep 27, 2009	Nov 01, 2010
Printed	Page 36 first paragraph, first sentence	Page 36, first paragraph, first sentence: "At first, you might consider this kind of explanation to unneccessary, ...". I assume that the author meant "too" instead of "to"; however, something is either necessary or unnecessary, so the word "to" may be omitted all together.	Anonymous	Feb 03, 2009	Jun 01, 2009
Printed	Page 37 last sentence	"This closing curly bracket marks end of the loop function." Should be "marks the end".	Anonymous	Oct 05, 2011
Printed	Page 37 fourth paragraph, fourth sentence	Page 37, fourth paragraph, fourth sentence: "Milliseconds are thousands of seconds; therefore, ...". Milliseconds are thousandths of seconds, not thousands of seconds. There needs to be a "th" to make the word thousandths.	Anonymous	Feb 03, 2009	Jun 01, 2009
Printed	Page 41 2nd paragraph	Phrase "grandma's thermal blanket" must mean "electric blanket". A thermal blanket in both the US and UK is a non-powered insulated blanket.	BruceMiller	Oct 16, 2010
Printed	Page 58 Figure 5-4 (and text)	Figure 5-4 shows a resistor in the circuit, but doesn't specify the value of the resistor. I used a 1K ohm - brown black red. Note from the Author or Editor: we should add to the paragraph below the illustration "Use a 270 Ohm resistor (Red Purple Brown)."	Anonymous	Nov 13, 2008
Printed	Page 59 first paragraph	"Now you have a replicated a fancy feature of a laptop computer..." Delete the a. Note from the Author or Editor: please change "have a replicated" to "have replicated"	Anonymous	Oct 05, 2011
Printed	Page 59 First paragraph after code block	"Let's the use this knowledge" should be "Let's use this knowledge".	Jim Rothrock	Sep 27, 2009	Nov 01, 2010
Printed	Page 60 2nd paragraph	"However, one of the advantages of the breadboard (seeAppendix A) is that there is a pair of rails..." Should be "there are".	Anonymous	Oct 05, 2011
PDF	Page 66 code example, 3rd and 6th line from the bottom	In the first line of the example, it says "#define LED 13 // the pin for the LED", so we've told the Arduino that it should read 13 when we say LED. But in the 3rd and 6th line from the bottom, it says "digitalWrite(13, HIGH/LOW)", which I think should be "digitalWrite(LED, HIGH/LOW)".	marrije	Aug 31, 2009
Printed	Page 70 Last paragraph	"and accelerometer" should be "and accelerometers".	Jim Rothrock	Sep 27, 2009	Nov 01, 2010
Printed	Page 78 end of Processing code snippet	at the end of the code listing, after the draw() function, there seems to be 1 too many closing curly braces... there are four and my code compiles fine with 3, and counting back gives me 3	Joe 10	Sep 23, 2009
Printed	Page 99 Definition of float	"This quite big and can hold..." should be "This is quite big and can hold...".	Anonymous	Oct 05, 2011
Printed	Page 102 1st program example	It should be ... digitalWrite(13,HIGH); delay(100); digitalWrite(13,LOW); ... for letting a LED blink. In the book the 3rd line has the parameter HIGH instead of LOW.	Rolf Steinort	Apr 10, 2009
Printed	Page 103 Arithmetic and Formula top section of page	under the Example is states: ... remainder= 3 % 2; //returns 2 because 3/2 has remainder 1 should read: remainder= 3 % 2; //returns 1	Anonymous	Jan 26, 2011
Printed	Page 104 2nd paragraph "increment and decrement (-- and ++)"	The description of the increment operator is incorrect. The text should be: "These increment or decrement a value by 1. Be careful, though. If you write ++i this increments i by 1 and evaluates to the equivalent of i+1; however i++ evaluates to the value of i and then increments i. The same applies to --." Note from the Author or Editor: the new definition is correct	Anonymous	Jan 02, 2010
Printed	Page 105 First paragraph	Current text: Maps a value in the range fromLow and maxLow... Should be: Maps a value in the range fromLow and fromHigh...	Paul Kowal	May 23, 2012