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Arduino has come a long way since its introduction in 2005. The open source hardware board is showing up everywhere, from consumer and industrial products to engineering toys for budding engineers.

Technically, the extras in the Arduino Basic Kit aren't anything a savvy consumer couldn't order piecemeal, but there's something nice about having everything ready for you in one place.

Requisite hardware setup is very simple: just verify and upload the below sketch to Arduino Uno and that’s all! The sketch enables Arduino to receive instructions (which will actually be in ASCII) ...

We'll outline the basics of the Arduino itself, what the crazy jumble of wires means, and then step through how to use other people's code and schematics to build your first electronics project ...

This Arduino BASIC interpreter will make a really fun one-day project if you’ve already got the parts on hand. [Usmar A. Padow] put together an Arduino Uno, SD card, four line character LCD, … ...

Experimenters, students, and hobbyists can start with one of four types of BASIC Stamp Programming Kits. The BASIC Stamp Discovery Kit ($160), for example, comes with a software manual and the “What's ...

Thankfully, Arduino forum member Romano d'Ezzelino has put together a series of reference cards that show the basics of a number of common connections.