Top Arduino books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of Arduino

Understanding the concepts of Arduino starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches, Third Edition

An up-to-date Arduino programming guide—no prior programming experience required! This fully updated guide shows, step by step, how to quickly and easily program all Arduino models using its modified C language and the Arduino IDE. ...

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Arduino For Dummies

Bring your ideas to life with the latest Arduino hardware and software Arduino is an affordable and readily available hardware development platform based around an open source, programmable circuit board. ...

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Arduino Cookbook

Create your own toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, robots, and many other projects with the Arduino device. This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with the physical world. ...

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Learn Electronics with Arduino: An Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Physical Computing

This book is your introduction to to physical computing with the Arduino microcontroller platform. No prior experience is required, not even an understanding of basic electronics. ...

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Getting Started With Arduino

Arduino is the open source electronics prototyping platform that has taken the Maker Movement by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for the latest Arduino release, helps you start prototyping right away. ...

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Arduino Workshop, 2nd Edition: A Hands-on Introduction with 65 Projects

Long-awaited revision of this best-selling book on the Arduino electronics platform (50,000+ copies sold). ...

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Additional Arduino Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Arduino, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

Exploring Arduino: Tools and Techniques for Engineering Wizardry

Learn to easily build gadgets, gizmos, robots, and more using Arduino Written by Arduino expert Jeremy Blum, this unique book uses the popular Arduino microcontroller platform as an instrument to teach you about topics in electrical engineering, programming, and human-computer interaction. ...

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