I've been making some simple robots and would like to move to the next level and do some programming. I'm a little unsure how to get started with a microcontroller.
I don't want anything fancy or high powered or feature heavy, but I definitely
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A blog for projects using the Arduino by Donno. The Arduino bear a multitude of functions and can be used to control electrical circuits, robots, motors, touch screens, IR, and more. Probably the best place to learn more about it here. You'll find information to purchase maps, code examples (sketch) and more about the different cards and Arduino uses. It was not very long, but I have some updates....
Take the story of Ayah Bdeir. As an engineering student, the nuts and bolts of technology always came naturally to her. However, after leaving graduate school at age 25 with her freshly minted engineering degree, Bdeir quickly realized that not all minds in the real world were like those back at MIT. The common, non-technologically inclined person would probably never know the things Bdeir spent her school days playing with, learning from breadboards and programming.
“Electronics intimidate people,” Bdeir said in an interview. “But as we’re completely surrounded by technology in nearly every part of our lives, intimidation is no longer a valid excuse.”
So she spent the next four years (completely bootstrapped) developing Littlebits, a library of individual electronics modules, each about the size of a silver dollar and part of a greater circuit that snaps together via small magnets. A Littlebits project requires no soldering, and won’t suffer crossed wires.
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