Arduino Development Board

[Brian Smithers]

Arduino is a company that makes these cool little microcontrolers and boards that you can program to your liking. Most people use a breadboard so they dont have to solder :D. It's loving awesome and you can basically wire/program your dreams and work at a hardware based level and code in a C programming interface, but several if not most scripting/programming languages have interfaced with Arduino (I know Python has :) ).

this is a picture of an Arduino Uno, one of the many types of Arduinos.

It's pretty cool, and they range from 10-100 dollars, Arduino unos cost 20-30 USD, which i like. Though it is suggested to get a starter kit so you have tools to work with. I know Slicksilver has one, and he showed it off and i cried like
OGM I WNAT!
but you know. Ill get soon c;

I suggest Atafruit, here are are some buying links
Budget Pack - $50
Starter Kit - $65
Raw Arduino - $30
Experimentation Kit - $85
really depends on how much you want to work on it. When i buy mine I'll post so many
so many
pictures of it :D

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[Orion]

so what exactly can you do with this little doohickey?

[Brian Smithers]

so what exactly can you do with this little doohickey?

build
anything

[pecon98]

I've looked into these before, maybe I'll get a starter kit just to mess around with and then get more stuff later on.

[Axolotl2]

I might get a starter kit, so that I can fiddle around with ICs.

I might even make an brown townog synthesizer... (I know almost nothing about electronical engineering but who cares: An arduino generates a pulse signal at a specific hertz rate, and routes it to a steep-release capacitor so that a saw wave is generated. Google, and my engineering teacher, (who also teaches digital electronics for 11th-12th grade) can help me.)

...or I could just program and then build whatever I wish :)

[Momentum]

i was looking at arduino to make a 32x32 button grid, kind of like a launchpad xxxxxxxxxxl

[Trinick]

jelllls?

[Isjix]

build
anything

build anything? wat

[Momentum]

build anything? wat

whats not to get

[Cucumber!]

My dad uses that with his drumset so whenever he hits a snare drum, a blue light flashes :D

It's awesome.

[Momentum]

My dad uses that with his drumset so whenever he hits a snare drum, a blue light flashes :D

It's awesome.

it doesn't do anything else?

[Cucumber!]

it doesn't do anything else?

Well he programmed the Arduino so it would do that. He can program it for other things, but he uses it for his drumset mainly.

[Brian Smithers]

My dad uses that with his drumset so whenever he hits a snare drum, a blue light flashes :D

It's awesome.

easy
just put a button
and an LED

anyway we use these at school
and I've done a bit more...
...complicated things
cough made a clock cough
wired it my self
cough

[Cucumber!]

easy
just put a button
and an LED

anyway we use these at school
and I've done a bit more...
...complicated things
cough made a clock cough
wired it my self
cough

Whoa, sounds neat!

[fred da kiko]

easy
just put a button
and an LED

anyway we use these at school
and I've done a bit more...
...complicated things
cough made a clock cough
wired it my self
cough

now make the clock into a vibration sensor that detects when people step on the ground, and wire it onto your school's computer system so that it makes them all run the emergency warning sound. Finally, put it in the IT room.