If you’re a MAKE regular, you know that we feature a lot of
Arduino projects. It’s such a popular and easy to use
microcontroller, I don’t think a day goes by without a blog post
that mentions Arduino. But what if you’re totally unfamiliar
with this popular physical computing platform? Where do you get
started? To answer that question, we created this video. So if
you have a friend or relative who has been asking “what’s an
Arduino?” You can point them here. They’ll get an overview of
what it is and what’s possible with it. And if you’re here
because you’re new to Arduino, there’s no better way to learn
than fearlessly jumping right in getting started. For that, I
recommend Maker Shed’s Getting Started with Arduino Kit, and not
because I work for MAKE. A few years ago—before I worked here—I
started playing around with an earlier version of this kit and
it lead me to a huge breakthrough. As a kid, I tried a few times
to teach myself electronics but never got very far. The Getting
Started with Arduino Kit is wh