I had been wanting to get hold of an Arduino board for a while. For the past few years there have been a fair few 'cool'
projects created using the Arduino, but I had no inspiration of my own to really warrant buying one. The Arduino is a programmable microcontroller prototyping board that allows for electrical components to be plugged into it and then controlled using software written in a version of C++. I will say now that I have had no previous experience with C++. I currently use web programming languages, SQL and VB.net at work and did a bit of C at university so I thought that I'd just dive right into it. I got to grips with it in a few days so it wasn't too much of a learning curve.
I followed these two examples and some help from the #highaltitude channel on freenode IRC to get things up and running:
![Prototyping on the way to London on the train](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggVmX8pz4BtSDsyJhrmE9SuKJqon0ahl_9pTxAAvPaFyhjfJdzd8AemmxUfpinhTSUMMFeUJAjwKrL38LaQ8z3Itwvlgbxz984lYpL3L4DX0rv_H5gVMe2inlwGn-qSpHVbu_IT7IimVo/s640/IMG_1578.JPG) |
Prototyping on the way to London |
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