PIC man wants to buy a arduino !

[granddad]

Had this idea to give my 12y grandson an arduino to try to prize him off his game pad stuff , a sort of challenge " make the LED flash " dont want to spend much (GBP) also system not to confusing just a usb plug and some free sw would be good (he has laptop).... as I am usually playing PIC24 I need some guidance Please.

 

[MikeMl]

I recently have done several projects based on the Uno. I bought an "official" one from Sparkfun (USA Distributor), and then several clones from FleaBay. Seamless equivalency...

 

[ericgibbs]

hi Granddad,
I buy these items from Amazon, never had a problem, allow for longish delivery.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_st_price-asc-rank?keywords=arduino&rh=i:aps,k:arduino&qid=1439191170&sort=price-asc-rank

Great Great Granddad ...

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Or order them from https://www.banggood.com/ - nice and cheap there as well.

 

[granddad]

Thanks ETO's , I presume they have some i/o port with a led on ... will check them out... Be nice if he took some interest in something other than a pixel monster ! Cheers.

 

[ericgibbs]

Thanks ETO's , I presume they have some i/o port with a led on ... will check them out... Be nice if he took some interest in something other than a pixel monster ! Cheers.

This link is for a Arduino circuit
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...5N8DEs5yQdw3VmQ&bvm=bv.99804247,d.ZGU&cad=rja

 

[granddad]

Thanks again for guidance I got grandson an official Arduino Micro 5v off A****n ( Cool components supplied in 3Days) at reasonable price I have saved IDE and files from the arduino site on USB mem .... fingers crossed.