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Arduino Playground will show you how to make gadgets with the Arduino hardware platform that you can use in your home, workshop, and even with your friends. Some projects are practical, others are pure fun-but all are designed to teach you something new about building with electronics.

Each project kicks off with author Warren Andrews´ own inspiration for the design and a guide to testing the basic circuit on a breadboard. Next, you´ll find the code you need to make everything work, templates for circuit boards that you can make yourself, hands-on instructions for building permanent project enclosures, and plenty of opportunities for customization.

What are you waiting for? Think outside the box and start building some awesome Arduino projects.

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You ve mastered the basics, conquered the soldering iron, and programmed a robot or two; now you ve got a set of skills and tools to take your Arduino exploits further. But what do you do once you ve exhausted your to-build list? Arduino Playground will show you how to keep your hardware hands busy with a variety of intermediate builds, both practical and just-for-fun. Advance your engineering and electronics know-how as you work your way through these 10 complex projects: A reaction-time game that leverages the Arduino s real-time capabilities A tool for etching your own printed circuit boards A regulated, variable-voltage power supply A kinetic wristwatch winder decked out with LEDs A garage parking assistant that blinks when your vehicle is perfectly parked A practical and colorful pH meter A ballistic chronograph that can measure the muzzle velocity of BB, Airsoft, and pellet guns A battery saver that prevents accidental discharge A square-wave generator A thermometer th

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