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The Ramblings of an old man<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In my years as a young boy, it came a time when I had to call myself to action. To stop procrastinating and just start! Be that as it may, I\u2019ve still put off writing this post for quite a while now.
You wanna know why?\u2026

I’ll take your silence as a “YES!” (a very enthusiastic one!)

This title is actually harder to write about than it looks\u2026 \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TL;DR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Arduino is awesome! You should fall for its allure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whetting your appetite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is the first in a series of Arduino tutorials, where I take you from zero to perhaps around 50 percent (I\u2019m really trying being reasonably optimistic) of what you could know about Arduino and all
that you could do with the powers bestowed upon you by this cheap, open-source hardware prototyping platform. You may hear (or in this case read) that and think, \u201cWhoa! Whoa! Whoa! Slow down, dude from
the internet, who I don\u2019t know, who apparently wants to share what they know about \u2018this stuff\u2019 with me.\u201d Well, it may be a little too early to start dropping jargon on you. My hope, though, is to walk<\/p>\n\n\n\n


you through to a working understanding of what all these appalling words mean.
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While beginning the writing of this series, I\u2019m operating on certain assumptions:
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