Wanted to Learn Arduino Faster?
This Is My Story As a Hobbyist
Hello There!
If you’ve just started learning Arduino, you might be wondering what the best way is. Let me start by sharing my story…
I found Jungletronics one evening back in 2006. I was over 40 and should have been doing my house homework, but instead, I was playing with electronics.
I remember reading a book by Charles Platt.
And immediately I was fascinated with LEDs, Ohm’s Law, Electricity, and that little chip called 555. Wow! That’s amazing! and just right at the end of the book, the author mentioned a Picaxe 08M. What? I want one…
So I went online and searched for picaxe. After some unsuccessful attempts to buy on some very crude online stores, I quit, because there is no such a chip here, in Brazil, but in the UK…And the price was very high…
That was frustrating!But one day, my close friend, Ishida, told me about Arduino.
Arduino? What is it? A cool thing for learning electronics microcontrollers and that stuff…And it’s $25! Wow…Let’s consider it a try! In 2013 I read this book:
I dived into Arduino… I immediately love it! Wow, look what they can do! But there is a brick wall… I had absolutely no idea how I could do such awesome things: prosthetic limb, neural system, fitness apps… I couldn’t even bye anything here in my country! That’s frustrating too!
One of the greatest problems to get starting in electronics is that for your gadget working you need specific components, such as oscilloscope, soldering station, components, sensors, etc. And that is expensive and have nowhere around to purchase here in Brazil...
Over the years, I published my experiments in Arduino, Processing, and PIC, and collected some components, sensors…I bought even what I did not need…and more because in the earliest days, I put my codes elsewhere on my computer and when there was time to format it I lost everything. So I decided to annotate my experiments in an ordered fashion.
This was my first page: http://jungletronics.blogspot.com.br/
It looks bad, right? And them I migrate for this one: https://medium.com/jungletronics
I got my logo, and put J3 in there…
Hey, wait, Why J3?
It means J of the jungle (That’s a tribute… I lived in the largest tropical forest in the world: Amazon) and number #3 for my focus platforms, that I loved: Arduino, Raspberry, and PIC.
This sounds like a long history, isn’t it? Excessively long in fact.
Now I want to help you learn Arduino in the most pleasurable way and in the best way, in the right way, with the right tools, by trying to improve my tutorials more and more. I’d love to hear from you! I even learned Blender to help me better convey my ideas.
So I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel, on the medium page, KidsTronics pages (about LEGO), facebook, and Twitter. It’s your turn to be an Arduino hobbyist!
Over this year I want to teach you the same strategies I used to learn Arduino and microcontrollers in general (I specialize in PIC in Microgenios).
What Components you must have, what gadgets you might buy, where to get started in electronics faster and more accurately than I and avoid frustration… and be who knows a STEAM enthusiast, maker a DIYer, or a professional in mechatronics, these things so fashionable nowadays and make you who knows a master in robotics:) or myself:/
(BTW STEAM means Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics and DIY is someone who makes, services, or fixes things that are normally done by professionals in that particular field)
Electronics is Really a Fun Way to Get Into Things and Just Make a Lot of Cool Projects.
I initialize a series about Arduino from a microcontroller perspective!
LECTURES SERIE — ARDUINO UNDER THE HOOD
#01- https://youtu.be/gjPsJGOv538
#02 — https://youtu.be/TJlLjE67HLc
#03 #04 #05 #06 #07 #08 #09 #10
👉🏃Are you in a hurry? Grab your📲📱 smartphone and enjoy this series: Atmel Studio 7 & UNO Serie (Ep#00) @giljrE https://medium.com/series/atmel-studio-7-uno-ep-00-969b9cc3cf7b
For kids or Newbies:
Arduino UNO — Quick Intro — A Workshop in BSB with the Kids :) — kidSerie#10
Come on and join me now!
Happy Buildings!!
Cheers from J3, The Arduino Hobbyist!
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References & Credits
My Actual Sites: Jungletronics and KidsTronics (‘bout MIT App Inventor)
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Edited: Oct 2018 — Grammar corrections
Edited: Feb 2024— Grammar corrections
