The Arduino Inventor's Guideby Karen MaedaReviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk. Publisher
Credits Grade: 9 The Arduino Inventor's Handbook is amazing! At first glance, it's a little intimidating -- it's a pretty big, thick book. Once you pick it up and become friends with it, its mobile, easy to understand, has super easy instructions on how to do the projects in it, and is not written in hard-to-understand computerese. It becomes super friendly, with a wonderful soft binding that allows for opening the book and laying it flat without it snapping shut like it does not want to be read.The authors have spent some time thinking out the steps needed to make the Arduino microprocessor friendly to beginners. Each project in the book becomes increasingly harder and builds on the project in the chapter before it. All the code needed to complete each project is shown and the hardware has clear, easy to follow instructions on its construction. There are tons of helpful pictures and illustrations, too! The authors are part of SparkFun, an electronics company from Boulder, Colorado that specializes in doing things with microprocessors, such as the Arduino and their own processor, the SparkFun RedBoard. There is a little tiny very polite sales pitch in the beginning of the book because you will need some parts to build the projects -- an Arduino, and, as the authors suggest, a SparkFun beginners kit. The other parts that are in the projects are mostly things that could be found at home for little or no cost, which says a lot about the authors and that they want projects to be fun and not costly. This book is awesome! I highly recommend it for every library and class room. The projects are rewarding and the authors seem super cool. This is probably the best Arduino starter book out there! If you liked this book, I suggest checking out other No Starch Press books -- programming, Arduino, LEGO, manga guides, and zombies apocalypse survival are among their many tech topics. Written: August 5, 2017
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