For your first project, start small using one of the built-in examples in the Arduino IDE. The most beginner-friendly sketch here is the "Blink," which simply makes an LED blink.

When you think of Arduino projects, your mind likely goes straight to RFID door locks, weather sensors, or automated plant watering systems. While these are undeniably pretty cool projects, you ...

Arduino’s new Plug and Make Kit continues in this vein. SparkFun’s Quiic connector allows you to assemble all the components needed for your project without soldering or even using a ...

The Arduino is a cheap, fun way to get into building your own electronics. It can also be daunting to get started. Here, we’ll show you how to get a start-to-finish Arduino primer with a killer ...

An Arduino is a microcontroller — a single board designed to control something and perform a specific task. Unlike a ...

The Arduino development board has grown in popularity over the last few years and has spawned a myriad of interesting projects such as auto-lacing shoes, The EyeWriter 2.0, and the Mobile Dance ...

I'm taking the liberty of starting a new thread for Arduino projects, as I couldn't find one dedicated to this, and figure that there may be a few people around here who do this sort of thing. If ...

Arduino “IDE” is nice and free proggy, but it looks very basic and is targeted at beginners. You sholud try Mikroelektronika’s IDEs, it is in my opinion best IDE for programming AVRs, PICs ...

Hardware and software combined, Arduino does many things right. It lowers the entry level into embedded systems development with a nifty hardware abstraction layer. It aims for cross-platform compa… ...

The best/worst Arduino creation was an open-source Homeland Security non-lethal weapon project: “THE BEDAZZLER: A Do-it-yourself Handheld LED-Incapacitator”.