A new board to a new adventure 06.01.12
I received and unpack a coli.
Surprise, inside a Arduino Uno board.
The card is very small :

Before starting : installation
The install is simple under linux, a simple “a^t-get install arduino” is enough !
to the discovery of a new world
The classical “Hello World” in electronic is to make the led blink.
It’s one of the example included in the ide.
Then, a little modification of the programm to read an input. As I have not interrupter I use a LED instead (bad !!). With the LED unplug nothing append and we I plug it, the board’s led blink.

The serial communications are realy easy, most necessary code is already implemented.
I make a small program which count how many time the led blink and print it in to the console.
With a few more line, we communicate in the other way and stop the blinking by a “strop” order.
As well the analog input are simple to use, by plugin a potentiometer we can easily read the output state of it.