Adventures in Arduino

Everyone's got their learning style. I own 4 books on Arduino. This is my favorite. The layout is logical. First part is basic Arduino, then goes into building projects with step by step instruction.s Explanations are excellent. You learn doing the projects. Only knock agains this book is that the print is rather small, and the choice of color combination is often of lower contrast combinations. If you have young eyes, you're fine. If you have older eyes, the small, low contrast prints can make it hard to read.

Definitely a MUST OWN book for young teenagers looking to learn programming, and interfacing from a Screen into the Real/Tangible world. It comes with great examples, code, illustrations are excellent, and it goes from Zero to Advanced experiments and tests that can be run in the Arduino. Fantastic job.

Informative

Our grandson is 13 and is thinking that he wants to become an Electrical Engineer. We purchased the beginner set and this book to help begin his journey into electrical circuits. He is hooked. Thank you !! Thank You!!!

Not as useful for a 10-year old with no coding experience. I wished that it would have had more.

Great pictures and direct instructions for doing the Arduino projects. Well worth the money for a beginner and more seasoned user.

IoT is the next big thing in technology, and any kid who learns it young will have a huge advantage later on. This teaches kids how to program the Arduino Uno, Leonardo, and Lilypad. Primarily it uses the Uno, which makes sense because the Uno is more popular. The first seven projects only use the Uno, so it's a good idea to just pick that up, and pick the others up if and when they are needed.You'll need a USB cable, the old square ones from way back, not the micro or mini for the Uno, a breadboard, jumper wires, leds, resistors (100m 220, 10k,1M and 10M ohms), a 9V battery connector, and male header pins. Any starter kit will have all of these. Most will have the rest, a potentiometer, a servo motor, a push button, a shift register, a piezo, a light-dependent resistor and wire. The rest will come in later, when you need the other boards. Ultimately soldering will be involved, but a kid can progress for quite a while with breadboards if safety is an issue.This book teaches how to setup the software, and not so much how to wire up each project, though it does show that, but how to understand how the projects should be wired up and why. By the time the diagrams come into play, they are for confirmation, not blindly following the steps. Remember the electronics kits they had decades ago where you followed a diagram and got an AM radio, but you never knew why that diagram gave you the AM radio? They were never good for anything but the provided projects. They could be used for more, but never taught how. This is the opposite of that. It's entirely possible to learn everything this book has to teach and never do the assigned projects, certainly not as written. Kids (and interested adults, I don't want to imply this isn't a good book for adults too because it is) will have the skills to go off and make up their own projects.

I have read many Arduino project books. The Adventures in Arduino is very well organized with various fun projects for the young Arduino adventurers.The book is very well organized with colorful illustrations for building the circuits and detailed code for each project. The code can also be downloaded from a link provided in the the book. The book also mentioned that there are video instructions on the website. However, at the time of this review, I cannot locate the videos on the website yet.Here are the general descriptions of the projects in this book :- Adventure 1 : Setting up your Arduino Provides an excellent introduction to Arduino with its components and software installation- Adventure 2 : Reading from Sensors Introduction to simple Arduino programming using LED and a potentiometer- Adventure 3 : Working with Servos Working with servo motors and building a combination safe- Adventure 4 : Using Shift registers Working with a shift register IC and building your name in lights. Introduction to programming in loops using functions- Adventure 5 : Playing Sounds Working with a buzzer and programming a wind chime using arrays and loops- Adventure 6 : Adding Libraries Making a crystal ball with capacity sensing circuit using code libraries- Adventure 7 : Working with Arduino Leonardo The Arduino Leanado is a newer version broad with built-in USB interface and more digital I/Os for expanding our applications- Adventure 8 : Working with the Lilypad The Lilypad is another version of Arduino which is designed for wearables. This projects builds a POV (Persistent Point of View) hoodie with arrays and data passing using functions- Adventure 9 : The Big Adventure - Building a Marble Maze Game The is the final and most complex project with sensor and sounds . The program also keep scores.

The projects are great for kids, the book is easy to read and a great tool for understanding how things work

Excellent book although you'll need a lot of kit to actually make all the projects. That said the introduction covers the components in detail, what they are, what they do, which types to buy suitable for the projects in the book, and includes an appendix with numerous global locations of where to buy such components. The projects start simply and increase in difficulty as the book goes on, so you could quite well buy the components as you need them rather than in bulk at the beginning.Overall great quality book mixing creativity and art with computing and electronics in fun and easy to follow projects for children of all ages (even this 25 year old kid!)

Cool book definitely for beginners

I bought this for a girl in the family, it does not pull any punch'swith the technical stuff ; which is what I wanted.It would suit bright children and bright adults to.It is presented in the very interesting broken down format.

Good book