[Liverpool] Links from my Arduino talk

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:07:01 +0100, Adrian McEwen wrote:

> I hope the talk wasn't too boring last night.

It was interesting enough for me to go to the tinker.it site when I got
home.

> The session in the pub 
> was definitely lively enough to make up for it ;-)

Once we found an open pub :(
 
> However, it's easier to buy a board that's ready made, and they're only 
> 20 quid.  I'd usually recommend getting one of the Tinker.it beginner 
> kits - <http://tinkerit.myshopify.com/products/beginners-kit> - but 
> they're currently having problems sourcing the breadboards and jumper 
> wires for them, so an alternative solution would be to just buy an 
> Arduino Duemilanove board from Tinker.it 

Those are also out of stock :(

> <http://tinkerit.myshopify.com/products/arduino> and then nip to Maplin 
> to buy some electronics bits or get something like this starter kit - 
> <http://bitsbox.co.uk/select.html#starter_kit>

I found this, which is more expensive but has a lot more bits, including
motors and sensors. It uses the seeduino board,are they any good?

http://www.skpang.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=140_143&products_id=411


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Neil Bothwick

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