Slides from my talk about "having fun" with Hardware

1. Having fun with
Hardware
Sudar Muthu (@sudarmuthu)
http://hardwarefun.com
http://github.com/sudar

2. Who Am I?

3. Unfortunately
No Demo Today 

4. I just spawned a new process ;)
http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/spawned-a-new-process

5. Having fun with Hardware
MY STORY

6. I was
Someone who hated electronics

7. Not anymore ;)

8. That’s because of Arduino
http://hardwarefun.com/news/hello-world

9. Arduino
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Extremely beginner friendly
Lots of examples to get your hands dirty
Lots of 3rd party libraries
Shields are available to do anything
Fully opensource (both hardware & software)

10. Some tips for getting started
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Start with some small, but yet complete project
Decide at what level of abstraction you want to work
Don’t stop if you are struck
If possible do your first project in a group
Open source your work

11. Checkout some of my works
• Asimi – My first bot - http://hardwarefun.com/projects/asimi
• Arduino Libraries and other projects http://hardwarefun.com/projects
• My talks, slides etc – http://sudarmuthu.com/my-talks
• Arduino Makefile http://hardwarefun.com/tutorials/compiling-arduinosketches-using-makefile
• Building robots using Arduino tutorial http://hardwarefun.com/tutorials/building-robots-usingarduino

12. THANK YOU