Technically, the extras in the Arduino Basic Kit aren't anything a savvy consumer couldn't order piecemeal, but there's something nice about having everything ready for you in one place.

You can find other hardware listed on the Arduino Web site. Amazon offers several basic-electronics books and programming books that use the an Arduino board and the language. Amazon also sells an ...

Thankfully, Arduino forum member Romano d'Ezzelino has put together a series of reference cards that show the basics of a number of common connections.

Once you’ve mastered Arduino basics with C Programming (Learning C for Arduino), you’ll be ready to get into the next eight volumes, each featuring various step-by-step Arduino projects.

If you’re looking to one-up the basic store-bought decorations, and maybe teach your kid the basics of an Arduino while you’re at it — why not build a Peek-A-Boo Ghost!

Getting down to Arduino basics, PWM output is possible in an Arduino (Uno) on its digital I/O pins 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11. Here the “analogWrite” function can be used to set the PWM duty cycle.

Of course, knowing the basics of Arduino is only half the battle; if you want to get to the fun stuff you'll have to learn how to code it as well.

What is MRAA and UPM? MRAA (mraa.io) – pronounced ‘em rah’ is the hardware abstraction layer in Arduino Create* for Linux* based platforms. It is an open source project, and it supports ...