Re:Sparkfun offering discounts on Arduino day
by kruffin on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:44AM
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You'll want an Arduino that has headers and a usb connector already soldered on and the usb cable to fit it. That's really the bare minimum. From the article, this one looks like it would fit: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11575 and only $9 on sale day.
Now if you want it to do something you can see other than in the logs from within the IDE, that's when you start needing more stuff. Generally a breadboard, wires, and some components like leds and resistors come next; for making blinking lights, who doesn't like those?
As far as the computer, it can be best answered here but is just about anything you have: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage in the getting started section.
Now if you want it to do something you can see other than in the logs from within the IDE, that's when you start needing more stuff. Generally a breadboard, wires, and some components like leds and resistors come next; for making blinking lights, who doesn't like those?
As far as the computer, it can be best answered here but is just about anything you have: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage in the getting started section.