Taking inspiration from the free Physical Computing lecture over at the 3rd Ward, my friend Elizabeth Fuller and her Life Dress, and from Tabs and all her unending enthusiasm, I have started playing around with Arduino. And now, I have my first blinky program!

I ordered my starter kit from hacktronics, but have been following this tutorial from sparkfun. There are a few gotchas, but the commenters have caught most of them. The ones that tripped me up, in case you’d like to try this yourself, were: Read more »