Remember the first time you got the Arduino to blink an LED? When you clicked the icon on your desktop, and some little lights on the Arduino board blinked like crazy for a few seconds, and then it just worked? Brace yourself, because we are about to ruin that magic forever and reveal what actually happens behind the scenes!
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This blog has a lot to do with Arduino, so we have to do a Blink project, right? Go fetch your Arduino Beginner’s kit and let’s get this over with…
Wondering what programming language you should learn to program the Arduino? The short answer is C++, but if you want to know why it’s not obvious, and why there are quite a few different answers still hovering about…
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Hi, Internet.
This is my first post here, so I guess I should introduce myself, but I won’t. There will be plenty of time for that later. Anyway, I bought my first Arduino around the end of 2011, and got sucked into it badly. Since then, although I’m still not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, I did learn a lot about Arduino, electronics, microcontrollers, Making in general – and the people involved with them. This knowledge I wish to share with you now, so…
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