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MeLight
Best Arduino for beginners?
Sep 16th, 2009, 4:44am  
Hi, my first post here!
I'm really excited about Processing in general and the possibility to easily connect to custom hardware easily (I think?) specifically. I understand from reading this forum that the general Processing public chooses the Arduino boards for such experiments.
What I'd like to ask is what is the best Arduino model to start with for someone who has almost no experience with such stuff (I took microcontrollers course in colledge). Stuffs I think I'd like to experiment with are:
Basic sound processing, buttons, maybe output to leds and lights ...

Thank you very much!
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marser
Re: Best Arduino for beginners?
Reply #1 - Sep 22nd, 2009, 4:53pm  
You can't go wrong with the Duemilanove, it's the latest 'standard' Arduino and works great.
Of course there are plenty of options, from building your own to getting a Mega version. There are also alternatives like seeedstudios Rainbowduino which is intended for a particular type of use.

But the Duemilanove is reliable, reasonably cheap and everyone knows them.

/m
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MeLight
Re: Best Arduino for beginners?
Reply #2 - Sep 23rd, 2009, 3:27pm  
Playing with it for 3 days now! It's great Cheesy
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Joan Allister
Re: Best Arduino for beginners?
Reply #3 - Oct 2nd, 2009, 8:08am  
Do any of you use VHDL and FPGAs?
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