Love bots? Build your own with an Arduino microcontroller, an open source computing platform. Tour the board and learn the pin headers you'll use in sketches.

Learn how to download and install the Arduino electronics platform on your computer. The integrated development environment (IDE) is user-friendly and free!

This beginner's lesson guides you through the Arduino program and how to write IDE sketches—giving time-saving shortcuts and clear guidance along the way.

Looking at punctuation, comments, and statements in a sketch example, this lesson for beginner's provides clear explanations about Arduino IDE syntax.

New to programming? Start declaring variables in Arduino IDE! You'll learn the do's and don'ts of writing, declaring, and initializing variables.

Connecting an LED to the board or simply making the on-board LED blink, you'll learn how to read and write Arduino IDE language to make an LED blink on and off.

When changing the values in the delay functions and the LED variable, what happens to the LED on your Arduino? Gain developer skills and learn to use the board!

Using a pre-installed, open source IDE sketch, you'll learn about using libraries, communicating data between your Arduino and computer, and viewing results.

In this follow-up lesson to "Using Arduino digitalRead() Function," troubleshoot serial communication. Pass information to other devices from your gadget!

With a built-in Arduino IDE example and a simple circuit schematic, you'll learn about the analogRead() function by connecting your board to a potentiometer.