Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, Second Edition (PragProg)

This Quick-Start Guide is packed with fun, useful devices to create, with step-by-step instructions and photos throughout. You'll build your first gadgets quickly, even if you have no electronics experience! This new edition is up to date for the latest Arduino boards and supporting tools, and for Arduino 1.x.

Maik Schmidt @maik

Edited by Susannah Davidson Pfalzer

This Quick-Start Guide is packed with fun, useful devices to create, with step-by-step instructions and photos throughout. You’ll build your first gadgets quickly, even if you have no electronics experience! This new edition is up to date for the latest Arduino boards and supporting tools, and for Arduino 1.x.

You’ll build your own motion-sensing game controller with a three-axis accelerometer, create a universal remote with an Arduino and a few cheap parts, make a burglar alarm, and build binary dice. You’ll create a video game console that you can connect to your TV set in one of this edition’s new projects. Plus, you’ll learn how to solder, and how to use the Arduino with the latest web technologies such as Google Chrome Apps.

Get ready to join the worldwide community of hobbyists and professionals who use the Arduino to prototype and develop fun, useful inventions.


“Buy this book only if you don’t mind being sucked into the amazing world of Arduino!”

–Kevin Beam, software engineer, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)


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