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Comment by Erick Wolf on December 16, 2012 at 4:06pm

Here is a nice little box that we 3D printed to hold our Arduino and breadboard together.  You can find the files to make it on thingiverse.

Comment by Ian stephenson on August 19, 2012 at 7:29am

The first thing I did with mine was hook it up to Bluetooth. The WiFi shield is cool, but BT is much cheaper and simpler. As usual the board came without ANY instructions, so I put together the following from a few websites and forums.

http://www.dctsystems.co.uk/Software/Arduino.html

hope its useful.

Comment by Brian McLaughlin on March 14, 2012 at 8:11pm

Just noticed that SparkFun modified their logo for Pi day. Well done, SparkFun.

Comment by Kathy Ceceri on March 14, 2012 at 7:56pm

I would love to take one of SparkFun's classes, if they weren't halfway across the country. I need to find me a hackerspace/Makerspace in my area. I'm a visual learner, I need to see someone do it to figure it out.

Comment by Brian McLaughlin on March 14, 2012 at 7:49pm

PS They have an electronics parts vending machine in the front hall. Awesome.

Comment by Brian McLaughlin on March 14, 2012 at 7:41pm

The original GeekDad posts are being replicated in the "Pages" list just under "Members" on the right above. I should link from tutorial to tutorial though, I will go ahead and add those. I would like to keep the "Other Information" section above as a general resource listing.

I haven't tried any of the Lilypads yet but it is on my to-do list. I am a huge fan of SparkFun and even had an order set-up as a local pickup once when I was on a business trip to Boulder just to get the chance to go into their hallowed halls.

Comment by Kathy Ceceri on March 14, 2012 at 2:13pm

Brian, can you put all your posts here on this page? I couldn't find a tag or links from one to the other.

The teen and I got the Protosnap Lilypad Arduino Development Board working today. I'm trying to see if it can be used by younger kids for robot-building, etc. without soldering. But it's not easy to figure out! I've been talking to the folks at SparkFun about it, and I'm looking forward to their new educational material coming out soon.

Comment by Brian McLaughlin on March 14, 2012 at 7:03am

Thanks, guys! Mike, the CircuitLab website is a great place to get started too because you can plug in a voltage source, a ground, a resistor, and probe the different voltages. You can then get more and more complex and learn a lot and then breadboard/build and see the results!

Comment by Evan Predavec on March 14, 2012 at 4:04am

If you'd like an international angle here... For Australians you can get the parts at http://littlebirdelectronics.com/

Comment by Daniel Donahoo on March 14, 2012 at 12:35am

This is juts such a great introduction Brian. When I find the time i have every intention of exporing the fun and power of the arduino! I'll make a maker out of me yet!