Getting Started with Arduino
by Massimo Banzi · first published 2008
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The Arduino Hardware The Arduino board is a small microcontroller board, which is a small circuit (the board) that contains a whole computer on a small chip (the microcontroller). This computer is at least a thousand times less powerful than the MacBook I’m using to write this, but it’s a lot cheaper and very useful to build interesting devices. Look at the Arduino board: you’ll see a black chip with 28 “legs”—that chip is the ATmega168, the heart of your board. We (the Arduino team) have placed on this board all the components that are required for this microcontroller to work properly and
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Instructables.com has a great Arduino section. There are many example projects included with the Arduino software as well as on their site. The getting started with Arduino/Processing books are great also. http://arduino.cc/hu/Tutorial/HomePage http://processing.org/learning/gettingstarted/ I have yet to come across a project that I want to build that someone has not at…
on “Arduino the documentary” ↗May I suggest you take a look at Make: Electronics, Making things talk, and Making things see. The Make folks also have a set of smaller books: Getting Started With Arduino, Getting Started with Processing, etc. These books are written in a very accessible manner (though not necessarily comprehensive).
on “Ask HN: What books for beginners in electronics and programming” ↗…low level hacking becomes an exercise in operating systems and drivers etc etc and not a quick weekend long project controlling servos and whatnot. I was particularly impressed with the approach of the Getting Started with Arduino book - for artists / non-electronics / non-programmers.
on “Two million Raspberry Pi sold” ↗Check out a getting started with Arduino book or online tutorial series. You're going to get a ton of answers from people that point you at all kinds of different boards and hardware to learn from, but IMHO nothing is as well documented and…
on “Ask HN: Getting started with DIY programming of electronics” ↗Music aside, I believe the first place I saw a copy of this old zine illustration was in the book "Getting Started with Arduino" by Massimo Banzi (page 10 if you're curious : https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Arduino-Electronics-P... ) Obviously the authors of the Arduino book were reprinting it because they'd seen it somewhere…
on “This is a Chord” ↗Good links, thanks all. I ended up buying the 'Getting Started with Arduino' book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/order-history?opt=ab&searc...) and there's also a parts package for the exercises you can buy to keep things simple - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HL44MI/ref=wms_ohs_prod...
on “Where to begin with Arduino” ↗…global package paths. The frameworks and libraries are useful (if opaque and quirky and underdocumented), but the IDE is just so underwhelming... heck, it doesn't even manage to be a decent text editor. Getting started with Arduino makes total sense, nobody's expecting newcomers to start off with the IC datasheet... but they should be able to eventually read the parts they need and work with it directly, instead of relying only…
on “Reverse engineering the 1988 NeXT keyboard protocol” ↗This is an Arduino tutorial for starters: Getting Started with Arduino, learn how to control a LED light, we will make a DIY LED clock.