Photoessay #1906 - Arduino, who knew?

Ilana gave her boyfriend an Arduino item for xmas (that would be outside the family pick-a-name scheme).

A what?

They both seemed quite excited about it and merrily got down to work on it. Especially Matt who will graduate from the Mechanical Engineering program at the U this year.

Um, so what is it? Looks like a circuit board with all kinds of little parts.

I look it up ...

Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform

OK, but ....

After several hours Matt shows me how he's programed it to turn a red light on and off.

Cool. I think.

Picture of Matt holding it and then working on it at my kitchen table.