Arduino

Assuming some people here have messed with Arduino. Not pointing any fingers, Matt.
I was wondering if you could give me a basic walk through of some of your Arduino experiences.

Honestly, I'm thinking of buying an Arduino USB and making an App for my Android phone and integrating the Arduino with a small LCD Display, to and for my jeep to control my subwoofers, from my phone! I mean it's one thing to have a switch to do it, but I think it would be much cooler to try this. Eventually, of course, I will make it display more then just "Subs On/Off". Maybe make it display the amount of miles my vehicle has, or have it log when ever someone plays with my speakers? Full audio control from my android?

Something like this. Display song names and etc. . .

Why are you a developer? You've done nothing for LG in ages. -________-

And as for arduino, I havn't used it before. Too expensive for my taste. I use the teensy for random stuff and for robotics we use some very expensive hardware from NI. NI CompactRIO - Rugged, High-Performance reconfigurable control and monitoring system - National Instruments

I'm not a developer. It's just my title display.

I have an Arduino Uno, and they're extremely fun. If you're going to get one, just get the Arduino Uno starter kit (It includes a super helpful book). The Uno is still as powerful as the others, but doesn't have specific thing like some of the others do (Like say an Ethernet port).

While this thread is a little over a month old, some users might benefit from what I have to contribute.

I own an Arduino Uno and Arduino Mega. They're not bad pieces of equipment, especially because there are so many libraries and code examples out there. The Arduino series is a great choice for beginners and experts alike. However, once you get some experience with the Arduino, you might want to build something that you can use on a daily basis (such as an LED cube for example). This means that you would have to sacrifice your Arduino in order to leave it plugged in most of the time to one of your creations. Fear not, Arduinos are way too expensive to be throwing them around like that.

Once you get to the point where you wish to create embedded systems which you will use frequently (or simply want to leave the processor connected to the system), you can buy micro controllers for very cheap ($5 can get you a micro controller more powerful than the one used in Arduino Uno). You can solder these micro controllers to your circuits and leave them be. Of course, you will need a programmer in order to be able to program the micro controller... and you will have to use C and the libraries required for your target micro controller. You will also need a compiler for your target architecture.

There are plenty of introductory tutorials to the world of embedded systems. Look around, and you will find what you need. In the end, your imagination (and perhaps economic situation) are the only limits to what you can design and develop.

Some keywords that will aid you: digital logic design, arduino, Atmega, USBtinyISP