What You Will Need

To be able to follow along with the projects in this book, you will need various components. This could be expensive, so I suggest that you start off with purchasing the components for the projects in the first few chapters (the parts are listed at the start of the project pages). As you progress through the book, you can obtain the parts needed for subsequent projects.

There are a handful of other items you will need or may find useful. Of course, you will need to obtain an Arduino board or one of the many clone boards on the market such as the Freeduino, Seeeduino (yes it's really spelled that way), Boarduino, Sanguino, Roboduino, or any of the other “duino” variants. These are all fully compatible with the Arduino IDE, Arduino ...

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