{"id":70,"date":"2010-10-26T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/?p=70"},"modified":"2016-05-24T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:30:31","slug":"diy-ing-sparkfun-and-adafruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/2010\/10\/diy-ing-sparkfun-and-adafruit\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY-ing, Sparkfun, and Adafruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>After meeting with a number of fellow grad students who are working on course projects for Walter\u2019s CMPUT 607 \u2013 Introduction to Human Computer Interaction<\/a>\u00a0course, I realized that I have been recommending a number of textbooks and manuals to people starting in HCI\/with DIY-projects, but I don\u2019t have a central place where people can view them. As I order most of my books from Amazon or Chapters (whenever they have them!), I have added a \u2018My Recommendations\u2019 widget to my blog. Currently, the recommendations are all based around books that I use all the time (on Arduino\u2019s (my new \u2018it\u2019 thing) and interaction), but I will switch out books whenever I discover new must-have\u2019s!\n

If you are starting with the Arduino and electronics for the FIRST time, I highly recommend Banzi\u2019s Getting Started with Arduino<\/a> book. I also recommend Noble\u2019s Programming Interactivity: A Designer\u2019s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks<\/a>\u00a0for anyone new to human computer interaction, motion tracking, basic computer vision, Arduino, processing, etc. Both of these books provide many tutorials, code examples, and pictures. They also are written for beginners and people who aren\u2019t technical, who maybe don\u2019t know how to code, or who don\u2019t know what a sensor is. I found the approaches taken in these books to be very helpful when you are first learning.<\/p>\n

As I am giving a shout-out to the books that I love to use for my projects, I also think it\u2019s important to share the links to the various sellers\/websites that I order components, Lilypad parts, and Arduino boards from. All of the websites below ship to Canada!<\/p>\n