Books and Manuals

Making Things Talk (by Tom Igoe): teaches you how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming networks of smart devices that carry on conversations with you and your environment.

Arduino Booklet (pdf): an illustrated guide to the philosophy and practice of Arduino.

Community Documentation

Tutorials created by the Arduino community. Hosted on the publicly-editable playground wiki.

Board Setup and Configuration: Information about the components and usage of Arduino hardware.

Interfacing With Hardware: Code, circuits, and instructions for using various electronic components with an Arduino board.

• Output
• Input
• Interaction
• Storage
• Communication

Interfacing with Software: how to get an Arduino board talking to software running on the computer (e.g. Processing, PD, Flash, Max/MSP).

Code Library and Tutorials: Arduino functions for performing specific tasks and other programming tutorials.

Electronics Techniques: tutorials on soldering and other electronics resources.

Other Examples and Tutorials

Learn electronics using Arduino: an introduction to programming, input / output, communication, etc. using Arduino. By ladyada.

• Lesson 0: Pre-flight check...Is your Arduino and computer ready?
• Lesson 1: The "Hello World!" of electronics, a simple blinking light
• Lesson 2: Sketches, variables, procedures and hacking code
• Lesson 3: Breadboards, resistors and LEDs, schematics, and basic RGB color-mixing
• Lesson 4: The serial library and binary data - getting chatty with Arduino and crunching numbers
• Lesson 5: Buttons & switches, digital inputs, pull-up and pull-down resistors, if/if-else statements, debouncing and your first contract product design.

Tom Igoe's Physical Computing Site: lots of information on electronics, microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, books, etc.

Example labs from ITP

Spooky Arduino: Longer presentation-format documents introducing Arduino from a Halloween hacking class taught by TodBot:

• class 1 (getting started)
• class 2 (input and sensors)
• class 3 (communication, servos, and pwm)
• class 4 (piezo sound & sensors, arduino+processing, stand-alone operation)

Bionic Arduino: another Arduino class from TodBot, this one focusing on physical sensing and making motion.

Wiring electronics reference: circuit diagrams for connecting a variety of basic electronic components.

Schematics to circuits: from Wiring, a guide to transforming circuit diagrams into physical circuits.

Examples from Tom Igoe

Examples from Jeff Gray