Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station

Chapter    6

Challenge 2: Fun Stuff to Know

We thought about naming this Chapter 6: Non-Boring Stuff (We Promise!), but our editors thought readers might just skip it and go on to Chapter 7. Our next try was calling it Chapter 6: More Details About Arduino, but this made our editors fall asleep. So we decided to stick with what works and keep it fun.

So now you’ve got your first Arduino gizmo built and tested. Some of you might be wanting to build really advanced Arduino gizmos—but would you attempt to build an automobile without a solid understanding of the engine, the doors, the wheels, the brakes, and all the hundreds of other parts and systems that make up a running car? Okay, we might try it, too, but that’s not the point. The point is ...