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Old 03-17-2010, 05:58 PM
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Very wise. You will want an LCD at some point as it will make development and troubleshooting much easier. Of course, you'll need some kind of display for your project too !
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Old 03-17-2010, 08:24 PM
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Very wise. You will want an LCD at some point as it will make development and troubleshooting much easier. Of course, you'll need some kind of display for your project too !
now I was reading that for playing with this if I have it pluged into my laptop through the USB that I can use my laptop to monitor?

I think later I will get a WiFi shield and use a web page as a monitor or maybe a LED. the cool thing I was looking at is the actual board is only 30ish bucks so to build more stuff with be cheep compared to my initial purchase.

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Again, I'm not very familiar with the Arduino but other micros have the ability to send information back to the PC and have it display there. The hitch to that is that it takes time -albeit only milliseconds- but this can affect how the rest of your program runs and can sometimes actually cause probmlems that wouldn't otherwise exist.

you'll be fine to start though.

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