Hi there,
I was about to buy my first arduino device, a arduino uno. But seeing the chipkit uno32 at roughly the same price, is it worth starting with the classic one? My first apps will not need high speed but who knows for future.
Thanks
Hi there,
I was about to buy my first arduino device, a arduino uno. But seeing the chipkit uno32 at roughly the same price, is it worth starting with the classic one? My first apps will not need high speed but who knows for future.
Thanks
after I got a little jaded with the "shieds" I bought a small bread board and made my own breadboard "shield" for it with vero board and a few SIL headers, this is also good for small projects and quite cheap when compared to the solder type proto-shields that you can really only use once.
but for Long term, get a Large breadboard and a Nano, this will not only assist in Arduino based prototyping, but also the arduino can be made into almost anything for prototyping Other chips 
anything from a simple binary counter or serial I/O to a frequency or random number generator etc...
you can also make simple plug in modules such as a bank of 8 LEDs with resistors, or a bank of DIP switches, or a seven segment display etc... all these will save time when building on breadboard and are perfectly transportable to other projects.
that way you only ever have to do the donkey work once 
I agree with YT2095 - I also have an Arduino Nano set up in a (relatively big) breadboard, and it works easily and conveniently with anything from bare parts (LEDs, switches, logic chips) to boards (like Bluetooth, distance finders, displays). LCD displays, for example just plug into the breadboard underneath it. Then just hook it all up with m-m patch cords.
Plus it can provide any other project you do with 5v or 3.3v from the Nano 
Cheers,
-Nico
