On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:07:27 +0000
Rob Morley  wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:33:58 +0000
>Peter Percival  wrote:
>
>> My apologies for an off-topic post, but there seems to be no Usenet
>> group for Arduinos as there is for Raspberry Pis, and I'm confident
>> plenty of readers here will have experience of them.
>>
>> My question is, where should one begin with Arduinos?  Just looking
>> at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino#Official_boards there are so
>> many of them!
>>
>Don't worry about getting genuine Arduino, clones are mostly fine.
>Start with something like this
>https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152988247870?hash=item239ecf673e:m:mCwaRWQMo_u_pfmP
CPvlwfA
>(cheaper are available from China

I wouldn't get a clone as a matter of principle. The genuine article is cheap
enough, and I prefer to support those doing the *real* work.

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