Seeed Grove Beginner Kit User manual

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Grove
Beginner Kit
for Arduino
Manual

Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino
The Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino is one of the best kits for beginners to
get started with Arduino. No troublesome soldering and no complicated
wiring. You can focus on learning Arduino. This kit includes a main control
board, which is the Seeeduino Lotus and 8 Grove modules, covering
sensors, actuators and displays. All you need to do is follow the tutorials,
plug the modules into the Seeeduino Lotus and build your cool projects.
Seeeduino Lotus v1.1
Grove - Tilt Switch
Grove - Buzzer
Grove - Temperature & Humidity Sensor (DHT11)
Grove - 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer(±1.5g)
Grove - Light Sensor v1.2
Grove - Line Finder v1.1
Grove – Chainable RGB LED V2.0
Grove - 16 x 2 LCD (White on Blue)
About Grove
Before we had Grove, at least three wires were needed every time a
module had to be connected to an Arduino, including power, signal, and
ground. So, Arduino was quite hard to manipulate among excessive
wires.
Parts List:

If this is your first time using a Seeeduino Lotus along with the Grove
modules, don’t worry, we got you covered! We have a detailed
step-by-step tutorial to guide you through. Find it in the "Getting
Started” section of the Grove - Beginner Kit's wiki page:
Also, we have made an interesting video for this kit, and it will help you
to get started quickly and easily!
Follow this link for the video:
How could we simplify this building process? Well…. Grove Ecosystem is
the solution. Every Grove module has a function, such as sensing light,
sensing motion. Also, you only need one Grove cable to connect between
these modules and the Seeeduino Lotus for the modules to function
reliably in your design.
First Date with Seeeduino?
http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Grove_Beginner_Kit_for_Arduino/
youtu.be/EZVdPm5Y37c
Sketchbook Download
After following the “Getting Started” section, if you succeed in blinking
the built-in LED, you can start to tinker with the Grove Beginner Kit for
Arduino. To simplify the coding tasks for you, we packed a few demos of
Grove Beginner Kit into a sketchbook file and uploaded it into GitHub.
Here is the link to download it:
https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Grove_Beginner_Kit_Sketchbook

There are four kind of Grove cables for different needs. For general
projects using Seeeduino or Base Shield, you can simply use the
standard cables. For projects where you need to connect two I2C devices
by connecting the Grove cable to the I2C port of the main board, you can
use the branch cables. If your project uses two servos, you can choose
Grove – Branch Cable for Servo. If you don’t want to use a Base Shield
or a Seeeduino in your projects, you can choose Grove to 4pin
Female/Male Jumpers, with which you can connect Grove module to
your breadboard directly. Each kind of cable have five different sizes of
length, 5cm, 20cm, 30cm, 40cm, and 50cm.
Grove cables
Standard Cable
Branch cable for Servo
Grove to 4pin Female/Male Jumper
Branch Cable

Connections
Standard Cable
Branch Cable
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Branch cable for Servo
Grove to 4pin Female/Male Jumper
Note
It is recommended to use external power supply for driving servos
SCL SDA
5V GND
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Contents
Modules Introduction
Grove - Buzzer
Grove - Tilt Switch
Grove – Chainable RGB LED V2.0
Grove - Light Sensor v1.2
Grove - Line Finder v1.1
Grove - 16 x 2 LCD (White on Blue)
Grove - Temperature & Humidity Sensor (DHT11)
Grove - 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer(±1.5g)
Demo Projects
Smart Garden
Smart Cup
Seeeduino Lotus V1.1
Arduino UNO vs Seeeduino Lotus
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Modules
Introduction
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