{"id":2816,"date":"2017-02-16T21:13:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2017-02-16T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:13:28","slug":"arduino-inventors-kits-now-available-for-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/02\/16\/arduino-inventors-kits-now-available-for-checkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino Inventor&#8217;s Kits Now Available for Checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arduino is an open source electronics platform that you can program to interact with the real world: make lights flash, buzzers buzz, and motors spin. \u00a0You can use Arduinos to build an invention, animate a sculpture, or automate your house. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ITS has purchased several Arduino-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/14094\" target=\"_blank\">SparkFun Inventor&#8217;s Kits<\/a>\u00a0now available for checkout from the Media Center. \u00a0These are great for learning about Arduino and come with lots of fun stuff like motors, LEDs, an LCD display, temperature and light sensors, a buzzer, and supporting electronics. \u00a0The kit also includes an excellent guide with 16 sample projects starting from the basic blinking LED up to driving a motor, using an LCD, and reading a temperature sensor. \u00a0Whether you are looking to start learning about Arduino or want to work on a class or personal project, stop by the Media Center (Beardsley 114) to check\u00a0out a kit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arduino is an open source electronics platform that you can program to interact with the real world: make lights flash, buzzers buzz, and motors spin. \u00a0You can use Arduinos to build an invention, animate a sculpture, or automate your house. \u00a0 ITS has purchased several Arduino-based\u00a0SparkFun Inventor&#8217;s Kits\u00a0now available for checkout from the Media Center. \u00a0These are great for learning about Arduino and come with lots of fun stuff like motors, LEDs, an LCD display, temperature and light sensors, a buzzer, and supporting electronics. \u00a0The kit also includes an excellent guide with 16 sample projects starting from the basic blinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/02\/16\/arduino-inventors-kits-now-available-for-checkout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arduino Inventor&#8217;s Kits Now Available for Checkout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,113,127,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-facultystaff","category-media-center","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-Jq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}