This book was written to demonstrate a variety of Arduino techniques in a practical context, giving you an opportunity to learn how the theory and reference material already available online applies to real-world projects. If you’ve come as far as picking up a whole book about Arduino, you’re ready for something more substantial than assembly instructions. You don’t want a simple series of steps to follow: you want to understand not just how to assemble something, but why it was designed that way in the first place. That’s what this book will give you: you won’t just be a color-by-numbers painter; you’ll learn to be a true hardware craftsman and artist, able to conceptualize, design, and assemble your own creations. We want you to take these projects as inspiration and examples of applying a variety of handy techniques and then adapt them to suit your own requirements, coming up with inspiration and new ideas that put ours to shame. And we hope that you’ll then sh
