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u/Shadow703793 · 6 pointsr/arduino

First:

Go through the tutorials on the Arduino site as well as here: http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/tutorials/ THese will cover the practical hands on stuff. Also, Adafruit has a lot of tutorials too.

Second:

If you're getting a book, get the Arduino Cookbook as it's one of the best reference books you can have. Get the Kindle version. This book basically gives you everything in one place for easy access/reference. I use this book rather often.

edit: Fixed link.

u/danisnotfunny · 3 pointsr/arduino

I recommend Getting Started With Arduino, it is by one of the creators on the original Arduino. It aims at someone with no programming/electronics experience and breaks down the sketches of simple programs one line at a time.

Although it only covers the basics, it is very short and can be read very quickly. I would read that as a quick introduction and then go onto using the arduino cookbook, which can be used for reference for specific projects.

u/dibsODDJOB · 3 pointsr/AskEngineers

I would get an Arduino and a good tutorial book like the Arduino Cookbook and just start trying all the examples. r/Arduino is a good source for help as well. You'll learn the basics of electronics, software, mechanical parts, etc. The Arduino is so popular you'll never run out of example projects and tutorials on the web.

From there you can start thinking about ways to modify the examples and create your own projects. Once you learn how to control things, you can substitute in any mechanical gadget your mind can dream up.

u/DevilsWeed · 3 pointsr/darknetplan

As someone with zero programming experience, thank you for the reading list. I was just planning on trying to learn python but I don't know if that's the best language to start with. Would you recommend just reading those books and starting with C?

Also, since I have no experience a technical answer would probably go right over my head but could you briefly explain how someone would go about messing around with an OS? I've always wondered what people meant by this. I have Linux installed on a VM but I have no idea what I could do to start experimenting and learning about programming with it.

Edit: Are these the books you're talking about? Physical Computing, C programming, and Writing Great Code?

u/TheSpeedy · 3 pointsr/arduino

Make has some great intro stuff for arduino. Good places to start would be to get either the getting started with arduino kit or if you want more advanced stuff immediately the Make ultimate arduino pack.

If you don't want to spend on hardware without understanding, there is a lot on youtube about arduino programming. Arduino Cookbook has most of the basics and a good framework for moving forward.

u/ford_contour · 2 pointsr/Python

The exceptionally helpful Arduino community are doing things like what you want to do, and most of their example code is in Java C. Some of the best programming advice I have heard is to adopt the language that you can get help with easily for the task at hand.

I would recommend you start with Getting Started with Arduino, and move on to the examples in the The Arduino Cookbook.

It is certainly possible, and not very difficult, to switch to Python for Adruino later, if you want to. But I recommend getting your feet under you using the default language, rather than trying to tackle both getting the examples running and converting them to Python at the same time.

Edit: Thanks /u/markrages. You're right, I do recall doing a #define once recently. Must be C. It's definitely one of those 'semi-colon' languages, in any case.

u/FabianN · 2 pointsr/programming

That's what I love about the Arduino platform though! The Arduino platform is a very mixed type of development system of software and hardware work.

You don't know much of hardware? That's fine! You can buy pre-built modules that you literally stack together and then you just need to deal with the software end. It is a bit more expensive this way, making it yourself saves on labor costs of course, but lots of people make completed projects this way, never even touching a soldering iron.

You're big on hardware? You can build it all yourself from the ground up and really go deep into the guts, and save yourself some money (and, sometimes some programming work, depending on what it is).


Though, I don't think a teensie is the development board you'd want to start with to get into the arduino platform, the UNO is best for beginners. But for a lot of people, arduino is their first foray into anything like electronics or programming.

If the itch does ever appear, get a good book (I like Ardunio Cookbook) and get a decent starter kit that comes with more than just the development board (the Sparkfun Inventor's kit looks great to start with).


Not trying to force you, but don't let it scare you off! It's a lot easier to get started in than it seems.

u/bullcityhomebrew · 2 pointsr/arduino

I would start with your basic UNO as part of a starter kit. If you've never done it before, working through the samples is the absolute best way to get going. In addition, get the Arduino Cookbook. With those two things, you should be able to work up to doing what you need to do.

u/GreatTricks · 2 pointsr/arduino

I have also always wanted to make a robot! And in the past I have actually tried out a few kits but was disappointed with them for exactly what you said ('put it together by following the instructions and its done'). There are many kits out there that are "put tab a in slot b" and it drove me CA-RAY-ZEE because they never explained WHY and what tab a was doing and why slot b was necessary and in the end I knew exactly as much as I did before. That's why a book or set of tutorials with lots of small projects that explain what they are doing is better. The book with the starter kit I linked above was really good at that. I've also heard good things about Arduino Cookbook but I haven't used it myself. After reading all your replies I'd say go for it. Have a project adventure. The worst that can happen is you've spent some $$ and have learned some stuff. And the best that can happen is that you've spent some $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and have made some really cool things.

u/Augustus290 · 2 pointsr/singapore

If you already have an Ardunio this set is the one we use at our school. (Although, full disclosure, I don't live in Singapore) On top of that, of course the Ardunio Cookbook...

Hope that helps.

u/Pigboy501 · 1 pointr/arduino

Check out the Arduino Cookbook! Covers just about everything you'll need when writing code.

u/FreakGeeked · 1 pointr/arduino

Get an Arduino cookbook and a starter kit

u/naniani · 1 pointr/arduino

Take a look at the "Arduino Cookbook"