The First post

First post for the first timer blogger who also happens to be a first timer in the Arduino world... well not quite.

Ive been interested in Arduino since the first time I encountered it somewhere in the world wide web, described as an electronics prototyping platform, it is programmable using C language using the Arduino software. Basically its free, its open source so practically anyone with the know how could build a board by hand. And then to program it all you need is logic and knowledge in programming C language.

Well yes its open source, but I was so lazy I preferred to buy an assembled one. Normally you could buy one for about 30 dollars in US (1300+ in Philippine pesos not including wuzzat? postage and handling thingy) Assembling it would be a lot of fun, but that probably comes later on when my Hyperspeed school gives us a lengthy vacation.

Kidding aside, I bought mine from a different source and unlike the mainstream ones out there from NG, Diecmila, Duemilanove, Bluetooth (gosh look at those variations), my Arduino is made in the Pilippines, yes it is.

Named [im]duino, this arduino variant is from [im] Imaginatech inc [site here]
Priced at 800 Philippine Pesos, its actually very affordable to the "common Juan" I got mine just last week wednesday January 21, 2009, I have yet to find any difficulties in using it. Any problems regarding the unit can be easily handled by the company's support.

So far I've worked how to connect it to an Infrared Collision Sensor kit as pictured below

Ill be posting more details on it in later posts, Ill include high def pics using a good friend's DSLR and probably a few videos of it at work.