Four hours of trudging through circuit diagrams and forum posts that
read like Chinese toaster manuals, trying desperately to figure out what
“Arduino” is. I finally have a breakthrough realization: I may have reached the far end of my brain’s capacity to learn new things.
I am an idiot. What a downer.
Luckily, I find a TED Talk by Massimo Banzi, an instructor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy and co-creator of Arduino, an “open-source electronics prototyping platform,”
which breaks...
