Learn Electronics with Arduino: An Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Physical Computing (Make: Technology on Your Time)

Makes Arduino and electronics incredibly easy to learn. This is the best self study on Arduino and electronics that I have ever read. I'm using it to teach my 13 year old grandson. I love it and so will you.

The content of this book is MUST knowledge for every STEM beginers. my 11 y/o kinds enjoy reading and practicing.

Wonderful book

This beginnner's guide to the popular Arduino microcontroller family by author-illustrator Jody Culkin and interactive artist Eric Hagan nicely fills a niche in the existing literature between Massimo Banzi and Michael Shiloh's classic "Getting Started with Arduino" and the more advanced books by folks like Simon Monk and Steve Gold. It's a particularly good choice for someone with no electronics background who may need a bit more hand-holding than Banzi and Shiloh can provide in their little book. Concepts are explained in plain language with just the right technical depth to impart understanding and maintain interest without getting bogged down, and the skills developed in the hands-on projects build smoothly on one another to create a compact but robust curriculum in basic electronics.

The product was perfect for me to begin Arguino. I have tried with other kits and online videos and was not able to over come the learning curve. This text and a small starter kit did the tick for getting me started, to I hope share with kids in the classroom later on.

Any child showing any mechanical interest would love this. Note: this is only the book, but products are inexpensive. Easy to follow even for the parent that doesn't like this type of thing. You will get into it. Really fun product with amazing potential.

I like the repetition!! Although it seems a bit redundant, it actually seems to help it stick. This book has been very helpful. Highly recommended beginner/intermediate.

The inclusion of explicit troubleshooting sections to help a beginner troubleshoot any issues with a project is a great help. Gives the reader direction on what to do after the "ok, followed the steps and it didn't work - now what?"

Easy to read and gives a great overview of the foundational concepts of building and measuring circuits, creating sketches and getting the most out of your Arduino.

son happy with book as he's in to this thing building computers

I found it easy, straightforward and enjoyable.

Dies Buch ist super. Echt für Anfänger. Sie sollten die Fortsetzung dieses Buches, für ein fortgeschritteneres Niveau, als Fortsetzung schreiben, vielleicht sogar in zwei weiteren Bänden. Ich kann das Buch (für Anfänger) nur weiter empfehlen. This book is great. Really for beginners. You should write the sequel to this book, for a more advanced level, as a sequel, maybe even in two more volumes. I can only recommend this book (for beginners).

Was the book I wanted, the book itself is well written ( first looks ) but arrived damaged. Significant damage to the spine of the book.