As a newbie wanting to learn about Arduino, I purchased the "UNO Board w/Starter Kit" that is shown on the group's welcome page. It looks like it is the kit of parts and an UNO board that comes with the Arduino Starter Kit that is shown on Arduino's products page, but without the book. Does anybody know if the book is available separately? Thanks.
I dont know of a book but Jeremy Blum has some vids that will hellp you through.
I also have a blog about my flight simulator and it has a series about the arduino. http://phoenixcomm.wordpress.com
But if can put 12bucks together I think that TI Stellaris Launchpad is a better bet. has a huge manual and you can use CCS5 (their version of Eclipse) 
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Cris H.
Let us all proceed to where the rubber meets the road...
You want a book? a free book?
Well, as Larry the cable guy says: git 'r done!
entertaining video to play in Firefox Browser => http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8124127/morris-scrams-intro-to-mrgs-electronics
N.B. I know of at least one person working with keyboards who really needs to read pages 402 to 415.
