Examples and curriculum materials are available from SparkFun and Arduino, as well as from other
educators involved in this growing maker movement.
The Arduino programming environment is a free download, making getting started as simple as
opening your kits, opening a programming window on your computer and loading example code to
the microcontroller. Arduino is a model for the open source movement. All the basics in this C-based
language are laid out in simple examples that students, teachers and parents can understand and
work with right from the start by accessing the example files in the programming environment. The
community support offered by Arduino is second to none. Hundreds of examples of code are
available for free online, and wiring examples for hardware are easy to find. The Arduino hardware
and software are C-based, and because of this they are easy to link to internet-based applications
and common programs such as Excel, MATLAB, LabView and even POP3 mail applications. Also,
Arduino has a free companion language, Processing, which gives users the ability to create very
friendly interfaces that can graph, create gaming options and do a dizzying amount of data
visualization.
INCLUDES
10x SparkFun Inventor’s Kit – v4.0
1x SparkFun Inventor’s Kit Refill Pack – v4.0
50x Alkaline Battery – AA
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/144471‐8‐18
