Microcontroller Monday tonight

[Dave Menninger]

Team,

I'm planning on being over at the hive tonight to do Arduino stuff.
If anyone wants to join me you are welcome and I can help out with
most of the basics.

If you have been considering working on Arduino stuff but you do not
have one I have two ideas:

1) If you let me know, I can let you borrow mine and I can do MakerBot
stuff intstead. [ MakerBot runs an Arduino derivative so it still
counts :). ]

2) I would like to set up an official "class" where there would be a
small fee and you would receive a basic Arduino starter kit. If you
are interested in something like this please let me know and I will
start some more serious planning. We'd have to establish a date and
then order some Arduino kits. We can probably get just the Arduinos
alone for around $20-$30 and if we get nice starter kits with
accessories they will probably be closer to $60.

Thanks,
Dave

[Paul]

If we are going to use a starter kit, we should put it together ourselves.  It will be cheaper for us and we can tailor it to our own needs. maybe create a wiki page where we can start listing parts for our recommended Arduino starter kit.

At the very least I think a starter kit from us should have:
- Arduino ~$30
- USB Cable ~$2
- Breadboard // jumpers ~$10
- Starter CD:
-- Getting Started instructions
-- Arduino IDE
-- Drivers for windows and packages for linux.
-- Links to helpful sites and tutorials

Then we can just have a few drawers of common parts that we can dole out

[Chris Anderson]

i was looking at this kit:
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&products_id=193

[Avishaan Sethi]

I am interested in this.

On Nov 2, 2:15 pm, Chris Anderson <deth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i was looking at this kit:http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&pro...