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Arduino 101?

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I was looking at the Adafruit website, and they have some pretty cool lighting products, but many of them are Arduino driven.

Although I'm not a programmer, I have some experience hacking scripts.

Is there anywhere I can go to find out what exactly an Arduino can do, and how to get the Arduino to do it?

Thanks in advance!
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http://www.arduino.cc/

To move beyond starter kit programs, C++ coding would be helpful, but your hacking skills may be sufficient.

I have gone through the lighting projects in sparfuns' starter kit. There would seem to be a number of ways to script the same sort of project. One of the pages I visited recommended learning C++. I have bought C++ for dummies, but as with modeling, I'm short for time to work on it.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12001 ... n=TopRight
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Thanks!

Adafruit has a starter kit for about $80.

That would probably be a good place to start.
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