What Kind of Arduino Can I Get?

Official Arduinos

Cheap Arduinos

Build Your Own

Arduboy!

What Tools Do I Need?

Software

Arduino IDE

Hardware

• Breadboard
• Patch Cables
• Multimeter

Learning

Online Tutorials

• Adafruit
• Sparkfun
• Google

Books for Beginners

• Short books from Make.
• Arduino Cookbook from O'Reily.
• Packt Publishing

Books for Deep Dives

The Art of Electronics, Horowitz & Hill

Expensive & worth it.

Full of math & scary diagrams.

Shields

Pre-built circuits that plug into an Arduino.

Fun Shields

• Relay Shields - Control higher voltage circuits.
• CAN Shields - Talk to your car.
• I2C - Read sensors, control servos.
• Motor Controller

Parts Kits

Sunfounder Super Kit

Building Something

Designing Circuits

Fritzing

Finding Parts

• Amazon - Everything and fast delivery.
• Mouser - Everything and good prices.
• Bangood - Even more stuff, even lower prices, slow boat from China.
• MPJA.com - Harbor Freight of electronics parts.

Power

• Batteries
• Phone Boosters
• Mains Power

Hardest Part of Your Project.

Connections

Soldering - Only for connections on a circuit board.

Mechanical - Anything not secured to the circuit board. It will come loose at the most inconvenient time.

Some Real Projects

Animated Spider

Box Joint Cutter