Brian, N1BQ’s Arduino Page
2007
Paul Badger at The Rhode Island School of Design took the basic Arduino NG board and considered it two parts (1) the Arduino processor and interfaces and (2) the USB to TTL serial interface. Analysis of this breakdown showed more than 50% of the cost of an Arduino platform lying in a portion more often than not used several times during creation, programming and debugging, then hardly used at all. So he designed the “Bare Bones Board,” an Arduino compatible board. He offers an FTDI USB/ttl-serial cable that combined with the BBB costs exactly the same as an Arduino NG, but subsequent purchases only require the BBB at less than half that price. To check out his website, click on his logo above.
NKC Electronics offers a nice line of Arduino shield and runtime boards. Click on their logo to check it out.
Brian Evans’ excellent guide for newbies to old hands.
The guys at <http://www.freeduino.org> have built a comprehensive index of all things Arduino. invaluable to beginners and old hands alike.
Microcontroller Hobby offers things Arduino/Freeduino and a wealth of reference and DIY articles
Adafruit Industries has a broad line of Freeduino boards and Arduino shield boards plus a lot of other materials.
Prof of Electrical Engineering
Most well known for his PIC offerings through the years, Peter also has an Arduino site with some Arduino hardware offerings as well as some excellent code snips and project ideas. Click on his name above to go there.
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The Shoppe at Wulfden offers a variety of Arduino hardware based upon Paul Badger’s BBB (Bare Bones Board kits) ranging from value added developer’s bundles to Rock Bottom kits for getting started at a minimal investment. Click on the Wulfden logo above to go to the Wulfden Arduino page.
Welcome
This site has its roots in a presentation I made to the NJQRP in August of 2007. It will be a mix of hints, tips, resources, website and software tutorials.
“Arduino is a physical computing platform based on a simple I/O board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.g., Macromedia Flash, Processing, Max/MSP, Pure Data, SuperCollider). currently shipping versions can be purchased pre-assembled; hardware design information for older versions is available for those who would like to assemble an Arduino by hand” .... from <en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Arduino>
