green leds

bought a pack of green leds @ fry's. 10 units for $2.99. bc i like green leds.

the blink example

look, i'm doing it! (in the photo the blink example is already mixed in with the pot that controls the servo. just couldn't wait to see that)

arduino arrived

WAIT, WHAT HAPPENED?
so i got the arduino in the mail today. went with the inventor's kit from sparkfun. $95. this one.

WHY DID I GET AN ARDUINO?
i had a few ideas in mind for a while and never knew how to make the connection between the "map" i have in mind and the real world. i knew what my - let's call it project - needed to do from an end-user perspective, but how the heck put this into reality? the arduino makes that bridge. it's the missing interface.

WHERE DID I HEAR ABOUT ARDUINO?
i first heard about it here, in a chaos computer club express podcast. it's about tinkering in the 21st century and how to spread out knowledge about how products really work. i googled arduino and first didn't know what to do with it. went back to that site a few months later. started to get really interested in it. finally understood it's meaning for me (i have some basic c++ knowledge, know how to use a computer, know how to bend metal and use a file, or saw, or a soldering iron, like anything r/c, have some product/project ideas, etc) and decided to order it.

WHY THE HECK ARE YOU BLOGGING ABOUT IT?
since arduino is open source, i thought i'd be a good citizen and report back what i learned, try to inspire others with what i do, and share my code. at this point, i'm learning to crawl, so don't expect too much. i have big plans though. lol.

WHY DID YOU CALL IT "THE MISSING LINK - ARDUINO BLOG 2890001"?
i did a google blog search and that turned up two million eight hundred ninety thousand results. i added one. which makes my arduino blog arduino blog two million eight hundred ninety thousand and one. i even have a screen grab to prove it.


OH, AND BY THE WAY...
i just spent two hours on photoshop extracting the red and green crossed leds from their background, so i will make that my signature logo. like how? like so:

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