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Arduino Adventures :: Day 2

After talking with a few people who saw Day 1's pictures, I tried a different technique, and it worked so well I didn't get a single Cold Solder, and finished the entire board in the time it took me to do just 10 pins last night!

The finished product!

Those are some nice solder joints!

Plugged in for the first time, and Win7 found the drivers w\o any help, I'm kinda impressed!

Running my first program! (it just toggles 1 of the digital outputs High (5V) and then Low (0V)) and I hooked up an LED so it would look pretty while doing it:

I disected an old XBox controller and extracted the 2 rumble motors. Then I hooked the larger of the 2 up to the digital output that my program is toggling:

Now I am going to run through some of the tutorials and stuff to learn all the little ins and outs of programming this thing, and then I can start coming up with some cool projects!