Arduino! Where to buy?

[crenn]

Look at it this way, it is possible to at a later stage save up the $60 or so and buy the kit, I doubt it's going anywhere. I'm moving away from the arduino due to it's limitations. For the systems I need, I need something like an arm processor. 32-bit computing with less than 2 amps to play with. A concept system/UAV I'm working on uses 3-4 microprocessors in tandem. Interesting but not really helpful for you. I'll update the post shortly, been a little distracted getting embedded linux to do what I want

EDIT: Updated the previous post now.

Arghh, that was one of the kits off ebay I had seriously considered. Eventually I am probably going to wish I had gotten the Mega. The extra I/O looks quite nice now.

I'll just have to see how much use I really get out of this one. What really drove the price up on what I had purchased was the ethernet shield. Damn thing cost 1.5x the Arduino itself.

I got some more parts out of 2 early 2000's cameras. Buttons, caps, resistors, diodes, 4xAA retainer, etc. Got a ~1.5" LCD out of one, but can't find any information on it at all, so doesn't look like it would be as easy (if possible to use) as a nokia screen. Have a couple old Samsung cell phones too, but doubt I could get the screens going.

The funny thing is, you'll have problems using all of that I/O unless you need to do a lot of parallel data lines.

You'll get out a lot of use, you can actually use the analog inputs as digital I/O, just a little hint for later. It's best to use that ethernet shield as it will protect your micro in the event of a surge.

It's possible that the phone LCDs are only getting power and SPI, you might be able to find a data sheet for the LCD module itself rather than a LCD module for a specific phone.

[NightrainSrt4]

I tried googling the numbers on the back of the lcd itself and found nothing. It's alright though, as I didn't expect to be able to do anything with it. Just felt like tearing up some old crap, crap that had been sitting around in the closet forever, for some parts.

I'm probably going to end up going through a tinkering phase for a while, as right now I have no ultimate goal or project I want to do. Well, making a small portable box for the application I've been working on would be nice, but that is down the line.

I really just wanted to get into something I don't know too much about. Something to work on during a rainy day inside. Modding is great and all, but I needed something, a hobby, that could be done inside without a mess. I had fun the few times I had to repair LCD screens, and soldering components, and trying to get things to work, so I thought I could get some use out of this. Especially as I've got the software side handled relatively well.

[BuzzKillington]

http://labs.ideo.com/category/open-source/

May be a good app to have for the Arduino.