oh goodiefirst do a blinking light to get your self good with the languagemake sure you have a few breadboards hundreds of jumpercables and tons of LEDs/Resistors.Get a Servo because they're cool.I did something where I click a button turn off the lights and leave the room for dinner and when I come back I turn on the lights and it turns on my computer.You should probably get your self good with multiplexing because that is important. Try doing something like turning a potentiometer to determine the brighness of an LED.Try using a buzzer. Try messing with photocells.Try something like what I did, Arduinos are supposed to interface your code with real world objects.
http://www.david-laserscanner.com/wiki/the_open_hardware_project
Floppy drive songs.or laser harp.
oh man I want to do floppy drive musicbut I don't have floppy drives lol
BUY SOME.http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2043524.m570.l1313&_nkw=Floppy+Drives&_sacat=0&_from=R40
buy it now, they're like 10 bucksbidding, the shipping is like 3-4 times more than the drive ;-;
those are the newer ones, buy the old dinosaur ones that growl at you.also, BIT is a good bet for these.
Buy It Now?oops.hang on.http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=Old+Floppy+Drives&_lncat=0&_arm=1&_armm=94&_ruu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2FEverything-Else-%2F99%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3DOld%2BFloppy%2BDrives%26_arr%3D1&_armi=Everything+Else
expensive as stuff :(
they are old and generaly out of production...Try this instead:http://makeprojects.com/Project/Laser+Harp/690/1#.ULu5pmdaEZi
