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This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taking the design and hobbyist world by storm. Getting Started with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for Arduino projects and helps you get going on them right away. From getting organized to putting the final touches on your prototype, all the information you need is right in the book.
Inside, you'll learn about:
- Interaction design and physical computing
- The Arduino hardware and software development environment
- Basics of electricity and electronics
- Prototyping on a solderless breadboard
- Drawing a schematic diagram
And more. With inexpensive hardware and open-source software components that you can download free, getting started with Arduino is a snap. To use the introductory examples in this book, all you need is a USB Arduino, USB A-B cable, and an LED.
Join the tens of thousands of hobbyists who have discovered this incredible (and educational) platform. Written by the co-founder of the Arduino project, with illustrations by Elisa Canducci, Getting Started with Arduino gets you in on the fun! This 128-page book is a greatly expanded follow-up to the author's original short PDF that's available on the Arduino website.
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A good place to start with the Arduino
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This is a thin book that's a good intro to programming the Arduino. I think the examples could have been better (more detail would be better), but it's worth $10.
If you're an experienced programmer, this would be great. However, if you don't program, or you haven't done any in a while, there isn't enough meat in the book.
However, I feel I got $10 of knowledge from it.
Rating: 
(4
out of 5) @ 2008-12-20
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Arduino 101: No Rocket Science Degree Needed
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I ended up NOT buying this book after having a thorough look through it, but only because I've been an Arduino user for a while now and needed something more in-depth (ended up with "Making Things Talk" instead). However, I think this would make an excellent introduction for first-time hobbyists, artists and kids...exactly the folks the Arduino was designed for. It's well structured, starting with a broad overview of physical computing concepts, then getting into very basic electronics and the Arduino specifically. The hand-drawn illustrations reinforce this modest "everyman" feel of the book. Not a complete or exhaustive reference at all, but an approachable size (and price!) that's likely to be read cover-to-cover, not left half-read and mocking you from the shelf like so many overwhelming $60, thousand-page computer books. Kudos to the author. I'd like to see more straightforward and sensibly-priced books like this, and hope this one is well-received.
Rating: 
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-12-12
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Information stolen from BoingBoing.net
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The following info, which I copied from a review on boingboing.net on 12/11/2008, gives an idea of WHY this book is useful. BTW, I'm likely to buy this book because of this explanation
"The Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based around a microcontroller. It accepts inputs, such as signals from sensors (light, temperature, moisture, etc.) or data from the Internet or wireless devices, and sends output signals to devices, such as LEDS, motors, speakers, MIDI sequencers, computers, and so on. You can write programs for the Arduino on a Mac, Windows, or Linux machine and load them onto the Arduino with a USB cable. "
Rating:
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out of 5) @ 2008-12-11
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High Praise For Brief Artistic Introduction to The Arduino
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I cannot offer high enough praise for this brief, artistic introduction to the Arduino Microcontroller and its enthusiastic user community. In this 118 page handbook, easily stored with your electronics tools, the author a co-designer of the Arduino controller, provides everything needed for the non-technical DIYer to program, test and build simple electronic projects with the Arduino board. In addition to Massimo Banzi's clear and informal writing about experimenting with electronics, software, and even descriptions of how to get answers from the open source community online, this pamphlet contains clear but artistic illustrations of the equipment used and ancillary tools by Elisa Canducci. It is an excellent introduction for the Artist, Teacher, DIYer, Electronics Hobbyists and Software People who are afraid to assemble physical electronics. I only wish there was more content along the lines of this book--but then it wouldn't fit in your toolkit or be available for $12.99.
--Ira Laefsky
Rating:
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out of 5) @ 2008-11-12
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A word from the Author
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Hello
I would like to specify that the book can't be found online for free.
There is a booklet that was written in 2006 that was 30 pages, this is 128 pages and it's up to date and correct.
The booklet had a lot of mistakes, inaccuracies and the way some things are taught is now out of date and has been removed from the site.
Having said this, Arduino is an open source project that prides itself from having a lot of documentation online so if you read the thousands of pages online you can learn about Arduino.
This book is for the complete beginner that wants to be taken by hand through the basic steps that it takes to get started.
Rating:
(4
out of 5) @ 2008-10-29
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