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Contents in Detail

What is This Book About?

How is This Book Different from Others?

Required Computer

What’s in This Book?

Online Resources

Spread the Word: Sharing Your Work

Electronics Primer

Electricity, Conductivity, and Basic Terms

What Is Electricity?

Types of Electricity

What Is a Circuit?

Visualizing Electricity as Water in a Pipe

Schematics, Circuit Blueprints, and Wiring Diagrams

Prototyping Circuits

Discrete Components vs. Breakout Boards

Analog vs. Digital

What Is A Microcontroller?

Project 1Getting Started with Arduino

Materials to Gather

About the Arduino

An Accessible Hardware Platform

About the SparkFun RedBoard

Installing the Arduino IDE and Drivers

Installing on Windows ...

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