Exploring Arduino

I found the Make Getting Started with Netduino kits on clearance at Radio Shack for $20, so I decided to pick one up (rescuing more clearance items). Figured it would be a good way for me to get my feet wet in the Arduino and microcontroller world.

A Make: Getting started with Netduino kit and a Netduino board

The board it self is pretty small, maybe a little smaller than 10x10cm.

A Netduino microcontroller board.  The board has the same form factor as an Arduino microcontroller board.

The kit contains everything you need for the basics like making LEDs blink, a little speaker, a little bread board for prototyping and even a servo motor.

A Netduino microcontroller board, bundle of connector wires, a red mini breadboard with some LEDs in it, a small push button, speaker, and a strip of resistors
Ziplock bags that contain a small servo motor

There’s even a MakerShield included for building your own Arduino shield.

Makershield prototyping board

I’ll have to deal with C# and .NET, but I don’t think it should be too difficult. I’m looking forward to learning and playing with it.


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