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Reading too much of MAKE:Magazine and spending too much time with Nikki made me buy a 20€ Arduino from Alyasoft, a little store recommended by arduino.cc. After a few days’ wait, a small package was waiting in my mailbox, and a Duemilanove secured in bubblewrap…

For those of you who have no clue what I’m talking about, the Arduino is a development platform under a Creative Commons license that allows you to do a whole lot of stuff. You’ll find it, along with its variants, in LED cubes, in locks that open on their own when you knock the correct combination on their door or in 3D printers…As your average beginner, I started by messing with the built-in LED to make it blink as I like it and understand a little more the way the programming language and I can’t wait to learn more – a good occasion to conjure the tiny bits of electronics my father tried to teach me when I was a kid while continuing to learn the basics of programming (if anyone can suggest a good website about the basics of electronics in the way that Le Site du Zéro does with coding, let me know) !