{"id":12156,"date":"2013-05-17T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2013-05-17T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T01:12:04","slug":"giveaway-copy-of-getting-started-with-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/giveaway-copy-of-getting-started-with-arduino\/","title":{"rendered":"Giveaway! Copy of Getting Started with Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Tools is giving away a copy of the book, <em>Getting Started with Arduino<\/em>* to one person who signs up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/p2bIX\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a> betwe<\/em>en now and Thursday, May 23 at 10pm PT. (Current newsletter subscribers are automatically included in the running.) <\/p>\n<p>From the publisher&#8217;s description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arduino is the open-source electronics prototyping platform that\u2019s taken the design and hobbyist world by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for Arduino 1.0, gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you work with them right away. From getting organized to putting the final touches on your prototype, all the information you need is here!<\/p>\n<p>Inside, you\u2019ll learn about:<\/p>\n<p>Interaction design and physical computing<br \/>\nThe Arduino hardware and software development environment<br \/>\nBasics of electricity and electronics<br \/>\nPrototyping on a solderless breadboard<br \/>\nDrawing a schematic diagram<br \/>\nGetting started with Arduino is a snap. To use the introductory examples in this guide, all you need an Arduino Uno or earlier model, along with USB A-B cable and an LED. The easy-to-use Arduino development environment is free to download.<\/p>\n<p>Join hundreds of thousands of hobbyists who have discovered this incredible (and educational) platform. Written by the co-founder of the Arduino project, <em>Getting Started with Arduino<\/em> gets you in on all the fun!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll pick one newsletter subscriber at random to receive the giveaway. We hold giveaways every Friday, so if you aren&#8217;t selected this time, try again next week.<\/p>\n<p>(* I am an editor at Make, a magazine that is owned by the company that published <em>Getting Started with Arduino<\/em>).<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best beginner intro to Arduino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[238],"tags":[1493],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12265,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}