If you’re thinking about building robots, Internet of Things things or physical computing gadgets and are completely new to the field; it’s hard to know what to do and where to start if you’ve never used a microcontroller board in your project. There are lots to learn about the interplay of microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, firmware, software, networking, data (and databases), radios, mechanisms, electronics and so on.

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