mike_mccuehttp://arduino.cc/ My sister, brother in law and my 10 year old nephew came up this weekend to visit. At some point we starting talking about education and my nephew's interest in learning how to program stuff like the robots that he sees made with Legos and such. I didn't know what I was talking about but I enthusiastically told them about Arduino and how accessible the stuff and the info has become. I told them you can walk right in to Radioshack and buy stuff and I showed them a bunch of YouTube videos on our big screen in an effort to get the juices flowing. They dismissed the idea as too hard to learn for a youngster. I pointed out that Boy Scouts have Arduino clubs. It sort of stopped there. This morning my wife says "I want to mess with Arduino" so we drove in to RadioShack and bought a MakerShed Ultimate Micro Controller Pack beginner kit and a book called "Getting Started with Arduino". She read the whole book this afternoon and did all the projects and now I'm scared of what will happen next. She called her mom to tell her what fun it was and her mom said "You've been wanting to do this since you were 10 years old!" Good times! :-)
mike_mccueMy wife has discovered Arduino