Arduino Resources

[You_are_a_cunt]

So, my dad recently acquired a couple of Arduinos and he's looking to learn how to program them and do nifty stuff with them, but he has no idea where to start.

He's an electronics guru, so that part's mostly covered, but he's asked me if I could point him to some documentation on how to program it. Since I don't really do Arduino past occasionally making temperature readers, I got no idea where to tell him to start.

 

Basically looking for guides/books/tutorials on how to do basic stuff, for starters, and then more advanced things later on (thinking about automation systems, on-demand actions etc.).

 

Where would I be able to find such resources? (It should be noted that we are prepared to spend the coin and buy books and whatnot if needed)

[mkxone]

You can use the reference page on arduino.cc, there is a detailed explanation for all commands so whenever a question come up, look it up there.

 

The Arduino API comes with a very big examples folder which is organised by difficulty levels. So if you just open the example programs (which go from making a single LED blink al the way to analogvalue processing or serial com) tryunderstanding or modifieing them you can learn all you need to get some simple sketches running within hours.

 

Try it, i'm convinced that noone needs a tutorial to start programming the Arduino because it is made for people who didnt get in touch with programming yet. Sp if your dad is an electronics guru he shouldn't need more then the reference page https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage and the examples folder.

 

Godspeed and have fun! mk

[You_are_a_cunt]

Thanks for the, needless to say, late reply.

Since it's been more than a month since we started messing around with it, we've figured out most of what we need. So far my dad seems to have successfully fully automated some annoyances around the house (he's a lazy mofo sometimes so he decided he'd make himself a clap on/off thingamabob for different appliances)