Dartmouth Libraries have Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits available for checkout from Jones Media Center and Feldberg Library. You can borrow the Arduino Uno Starter Kit and the Raspberry Pi 3 Ultimate Starter Kit .
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards
are able to read inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino programming language
(based on Wiring
), and the Arduino Software (IDE)
, based on Processing
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