This is my first post on using the Arduino! Although we have met before, this time I’m going to dedicate more time documenting things I learn and come across, like parts, techniques, success and failure.  So let’s begin — have a look at the image above and meet Arduino!

It just looks scary, all it really is is a tiny computer, or a microcontroller. Arduino will soon become very helpful, but before we explore what it can do, let’s see some of the parts it will work with:

There are MANY other parts, and I will try my best to document them as we go along and make stuff. If you have a kit open it and explore the parts. If you don’t know what something is find the tiny numbers on the piece and Google it! You are bound to find the answer shortly. 🙂