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Lee:
Seems the local Radio Shack is -not- one of the lucky ones so they're having a GOOB sale and they have a stack of Arduino Uno units for $10.45 each.

Have any of you dyed-in-the-wool geeks played with this board?

Would a hardware noob like myself be able to do anything useful or interesting with it (or with two or more of them) -without- having to buy additional interface boards?  ...I haven't done any low level programming since I had an Ampro Littleboard 1b (with Z-80 CPU) in the 1980'sm but how hard can it be?    :)

bmarkus:
Hi Lee

do not hasitate, just go there and pick few. Price is good, banggood is selling it for $13 including USB cable. For sure you will enjoy the Arduino Universe. It is really a fun if you used Z80 in the 80's. You will find tons of projects, code samples, libraries, etc.

Programming is easy in C++ with the Arduino IDE. No soldering iron, no programmers, no EPROMS, just an USB cable and a host PC, either Linux or WIndows. A great fun!

My advice is to use UECIDE instead of the original: http://uecide.org/

There are many clones around. The most interesting is the chipKIT family. These boards are based on Microchip's 32-bit PIC32 MIPS family. Boards can use Arduino shields, you can run Arduino code with no or small modification. Price is higher, but you get power:

http://chipkit.net/

Also, Microchip offers a PIC32 with preprogrammed bootloader in a 28-pin normal plastic DIP package. With only few components you can use it as a minimal chipKIT system, connecting the USB cable. It is graet, really.

http://chipkit.net/tag/prototype/

I have both Arduino and chipKIT here.

Lee:
Thanks Bela, you "talked me into it".

Now to figure out how to make it an "educational project for the kids"...  Well, -that- didn't take much imagination.  ;)

bmarkus:
Great! Just an illustration what can you do with a powerful board, using RadioShack components. Play the video:

http://hackaday.com/2011/06/08/chipkit-sketch-mini-polyphonic-sampling-synth/

Lee:
Thanks, that's neat.

Cruising around youtube for other simple arduino projects yields many instructive and interesting videos.

This is going to be fun.

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