Preface

The third edition of Getting Started with Arduino adds two new chapters: Chapter 8 is an ambitious project, which illustrates a more complex circuit and program. This chapter also talks about project design, testing, and construction, and makes use of schematic diagrams, which were (and still are) described in Appendix D.

The second chapter, Chapter 6, introduces the Arduino Leonardo. The Leonardo is a different sort of Arduino, because the USB controller is implemented in software, and not in a separate chip as had been the case prior to the Leonardo. This allows the USB behaviour of the board to be modified.

Apart from these new chapters, other updates have taken place:

The Third Edition is written for version 1.0.5 of the IDE. In ...

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