There are a lot of resources available to Arduino practitioners. Here is a (by no means exhaustive) list of some useful items, grouped in categories. Click on the category name to expand/collapse that list.
- Arduino Language Online Reference: the complete online documentation for the programming language.
- Arduino Language Cheat Sheet: a one-page, rather cramped but comprehensive, reference sheet for the Arduino programming language.
- Arduino Programming Notebook: a very handy summary notebook of Arduino programming constructs and typical circuit elements.
- Arduino Language Quick Reference: some quick reference examples for the basic programming language features.
- Books
- Getting Started with Arduino: A thorough introduction to using Arduino hardware and software, for those who like nicely illustrated explanations on paper.
- Tinkering With Arduino: An even more lushly designed enhancement of the Getting Started book.
- Arduino, A Quick-Start Guide: A systematic tour of Arduino with a good set of sample projects.
- Beginning Arduino: Another introductory book with a lot of project examples.
- Arduino Cookbook: A comprehensive collection of how-to recipes for accomplishing a myriad of tasks on Arduino systems.
- Practical Arduino: Some fairly advanced Arduino projects, well-documented and explained.
- 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius: Yet another set of Arduino projects.
- Arduino Starter Kit Manual: Documentation accompanying a starter kit, but works without buying the kit, too. A free version of the “Beginning Arduino” book.
- Arduino Experimenter’s Guide: Like the ASK Manual above, meant to accompany yet another another kit, but has some good examples.
- Context
- Arduino the Documentary: A 30 minute documentary film that is an excellent introduction to the early history of Arduino.
- Why the Arduino Won and Why It’s Here to Stay: An opinion piece about the significance of the Arduino platform and “movement.”
- Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters and Is This the End of “Made for iPod” (TM)?: Another piece by the same writer about the connection between Android and Arduino.”
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Resistor Chart | A really handy chart for decoding the colored stripe codes on resistors. |
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Soldering is Easy | A step-by-step poster that clearly illustrates basic soldering techniques. |
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Make: Electronics | A beautifully designed book that is a hands-on primer for people new to electronics. |
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Electrical Engineering 101 | Very accessible book on the theory and practice of electronics. |
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Getting Started in Electronics | An electronics course in notebook format. |
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Practical Electronics for Inventors | A complete reference guide for the theoretical and practical aspects of electronics. |
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Arduino Forum | The premier online community for Arduino. |
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Adafruit Forum | Primarily support for their products, but also an excellent and generous community. |
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Metrix Create:Space | Hackerspace, tech shop, workshops, classes: great resource and community, right on Cap Hill in Seattle. |
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Jigsaw Renaissance | A community and collective of intellectual eccentrics, passionate about learning and our various arts. |
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dorkbot seattle | People doing strange things with electricity: a monthly meeting of artists, designers, engineers, students and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art. |
- Leah Buechly: The MIT Media Lab professor who developed the LilyPad.
- Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here?: A survey article about all kinds of wearable technology projects.
- Fashion Geek: Diana Eng — “Fashion engineered from daydreams.”
- The Future of Fashion: “Ideas that will change and shape the fashion industry of tomorrow.”
- Fashioning Technology: Syuzi Pakhchyan — “A designer whose work investigates the intersection between code, cloth and culture.”
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Adafruit Industries | Maker of Arduino kits, supplier of parts, curator of offerings — awesome documentation, too. |
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Sparkfun Electronics | All things for the electronics hobbyist, with lots of Arduino and LilyPad stuff. |
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Maker SHED | DIY central, including Arduino, and lots more. |
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Radio Shack | Electronics supplies, with bricks and mortar sales. |
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Vetco Electronics | Mostly industrial electronics supplier, in Bellevue, but they sell to hobbyists. |
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Ada’s Technical Books | Great technical book store, on Cap Hill in Seattle, also with kits, puzzles, gifts, etc. |