Editing Getting started with Arduino

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A workshop to get your Arduino talking to your computer.  This is *NOT* a tutorial as such, but a time when a bunch of people who want to get going with Arduinos start doing it.  If there are problems we can all work them out together.

You'll need a laptop, an arduino and a cable to connect it.  There are a couple options, depending on if you have an Arduino or an Arduino clone.  For an Arduino, all you need is a USB cable.  For most Arduino clones (such as the BoArduino, a kit by Ladyada, which are available at Noisebridge for $17) you need a USB to TTL serial cable (which is available at Noisebridge for $19).  A breadboard will be handy for some arduino types (such as BoArduino) but not for others.

== Who ==
* [[User:rachel|Rachel]]
* William/Tim Heath
* jim
* Daniela
* Michael Shiloh
* [[User:Arcanology|Al B]]
* Jeffrey Malone
* Marnia Johnston
* David Yao
* Michael Twardos
* Jesse Welz

== When ==
The hard part!  This will not be recurring which makes it a little easier... Need to give people time to order their arduinos if they don't already have one (but note that BoArduinos and cables are available at Noisebridge), so how about 2 weeks out at minimum.  Let's try a table.


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| Mon June 22, 8AM (this is a straw man date, I don't REALLY want to do this at 8 '''AM''')
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