Originally I was going to kick things off with a "Website Dynamics" tutorial, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this awesome ‘thingy’ I just made with my new Arduino board. The whole project only took me about 2 hours… with soldering and coding.

"So what is Arduino?" you ask.  Arduino is an open source electronics platform with various inputs and outputs. There are many similar platforms to this one, but I personally liked the name ‘Arduino’ best.  It is programmed using a C based language, and it’s multiple inputs and outputs allow for a wide variety of applications.

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