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Which Arduino for a beginner?

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lavo-1:
Totally new to micro-controllers and want to have a bit of fun messing around with them. I have chosen the Arduino platform as it is supposed to be the easiest to program, which suits me as software is not my strongest attribute.
As always there seems a few to choose from plus the many clones so i ask the experts .... which one to get me started?
I will probably follow a few books I have found online for projects to give me the basics as well as the community on here for further ideas.
So, point me to either Arduino website or to other clones (ber in mind I live in the UK so will only buy in the EU). 8)

IanB:
I think the Arduino Uno is the standard place to begin.

For general Arduino ideas and background information, check out tronixstuff, sparkfun and adafruit, as well as the main Arduino home page of course.

Mechatrommer:
i believe the way you program the arduino. io pin, adc pwm etc are all the same throughout arduino types, so i dont think there's arduino for beginner or arduino for expert, its just how many pins you are going to need to determine which arduino you want to get. btw, i never heard uno when i bought my mega last time, its just that duminalove and mega. and i choose mega because.... number of pins, and that was my first programming in micro ;)

johnboxall:

--- Quote from: lavo-1 on October 26, 2011, 08:47:38 pm ---Totally new to micro-controllers and want to have a bit of fun messing around with them. I have chosen the Arduino platform as it is supposed to be the easiest to program, which suits me as software is not my strongest attribute.
As always there seems a few to choose from plus the many clones so i ask the experts .... which one to get me started?
I will probably follow a few books I have found online for projects to give me the basics as well as the community on here for further ideas.
So, point me to either Arduino website or to other clones (ber in mind I live in the UK so will only buy in the EU). 8)

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The current board to get would be the Arduino Uno. However there is an Australian-designed version which is improved on the Uno - the Freetronics Eleven. You can get one from lipoly -
http://www.lipoly.de/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=166484

Achilles:
Well, I think any Arduino will bring you a step forward, but I wouldn't suggest a Pro, or Fio or so that need an external USB-Serial(TTL) converter to program it for playing around.

An Duemilanove, Mega, Uno should be fine. I bought a Mega 1280 from DFRobot first and I am very happy with it. It (with some additions) is now running as a RS232 Data logger on our Cloup Droplet Probe.

I bought it on ebay from a chinese, but he has a logistics center/partner that sends it from Germany. A bit more expensive than China, but not much and very fast. I bought several times there.

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