Making Things Talk

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The Make:Electronics book is probably not what you will want, it is more of an intro to electronics text. If your primary interest is the arduino and you are relatively comfortable with a soldering iron and circuit diagram then the book you are probably looking for is "Making Things Talk" (also from ORA.)

I was going for that too, but wanted the "Making Things Talk" book (which is also cheaper on Amazon). Getting the individual pieces for the kit on sparkfun was also cheaper than getting the kit, and you could get a full size breadboard too. Thanks for the find.

…f quirks but are not very hard to figure out despite some comments to the contrary on Sparkfun. If you are interested in Arduino I would highly recommend Tom Igoe's book Making Things Talk. The book is filled with a ton of wireless projects and walks you through the Arduino basics. If you are in L.A. and interested in Arduino I recommend checking out the occasional Arduino classes offered at Machine Project (www.machineproject.com).

The book "Making Things Talk" (O'Reilly) is a great way to start: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/

Art of Electronics is a very good book, but if you want to learn from a fun / programming point of view I highly recommend "Making Things Talk", by Tom Igoe. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/

Its not a bad idea, but I think it misses the potential that YC was suggesting. Read the book 'Making Things Talk' - think about the potential of measuring things in the analog world, temperature, weight, flow, force, sound, etc, and correlating these things with enterprise data. Maybe you can start off by measuring things like heartrate, blood glucose levels, physical mobility, dietary intake, etc. For instance, if someone is stressed all day, this probably is going to correlate with productivity.