Learn Electronics with Arduino: An Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Physical Computing (Make: Technology on Your Time)

Any child showing any mechanical interest would love this. Note: this is only the book, but products are inexpensive. Easy to follow even for the parent that doesn't like this type of thing. You will get into it. Really fun product with amazing potential.

I like the repetition!! Although it seems a bit redundant, it actually seems to help it stick.This book has been very helpful. Highly recommended beginner/intermediate.

This beginnner's guide to the popular Arduino microcontroller family by author-illustrator Jody Culkin and interactive artist Eric Hagan nicely fills a niche in the existing literature between Massimo Banzi and Michael Shiloh's classic "Getting Started with Arduino" and the more advanced books by folks like Simon Monk and Steve Gold. It's a particularly good choice for someone with no electronics background who may need a bit more hand-holding than Banzi and Shiloh can provide in their little book. Concepts are explained in plain language with just the right technical depth to impart understanding and maintain interest without getting bogged down, and the skills developed in the hands-on projects build smoothly on one another to create a compact but robust curriculum in basic electronics.

The product was perfect for me to begin Arguino. I have tried with other kits and online videos and was not able to over come the learning curve.This text and a small starter kit did the tick for getting me started, to I hope share with kids in the classroom later on.

The inclusion of explicit troubleshooting sections to help a beginner troubleshoot any issues with a project is a great help. Gives the reader direction on what to do after the "ok, followed the steps and it didn't work - now what?"

This book is very well written, and easy to understand. I'm using it to help my son learn electronics, while we both learn Arduino.

I do like the hands on programming

FINALLY I'm learning to program and upload to the arduino boards in my astronomy equipment. Great book. Some things are repeated to much (for a 10 year old) but I wanted it EASIER rather than HARDER and this is great for this old 61 year old guy. I'm writing and uploaded to the board in minutes with this book. I recommend it highly. I purchased this with the 27 - super kit and uno board. Very pleased with kit and book.