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Build Your First Arduino Robot: Beginner’s Guide

Where things get a bit tricky is capability and just knowing where to start. Which Arduino robot kit is best to get? Does the building process actually involve programming skills, or do I just purchase a robot kit and build an Arduino robot? What really is the difference between a simple toy that I could buy on Saturday afternoon and an actual Arduino STEM robot building kit? Let’s see what an Arduino is and is not, what type of Arduino robot kit is appropriate for the user’s experience, and some Arduino robot project examples that can be done using an Arduino robot kit. If you have a goal of creating a simple RC robot or an Arduino robot with true artificial intelligence using sensors, then learning about the Arduino robot kit options is where you will begin.

What is Arduino, and why is it used for so many things?
Arduino is a brand-name open-source microcontroller platform. Microcontrollers are tiny programmable circuits that read electrical signals from sensors, buttons, and other inputs. And turn them into output like moving motors, lighting up LEDs, making sounds, etc. The initial circuit boards were developed in an Italian design school in 2005 and spread very rapidly due to cheap hardware and a relatively simple programming language supported by thousands of ready-made libraries to handle any problem you can throw at them.

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The Arduino IDE programming language is a slightly pared-down version of C/C++, and most people have their first functional program up and running within an hour of starting to work with an Arduino board.

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