I started playing with Arduino just a few weeks ago. I have many other kits/demo boards, mostly for PIC and ARM UCs, and while it's not that powerful, Arduino i

I started playing with Arduino just a few weeks ago. I have many other kits/demo boards, mostly for PIC and ARM UCs, and while it's not that powerful, Arduino is the best for fast and simple solutions. It's nice to have the power of an ARM core or PIC32 @80MHz in a small device, but it gets less interesting when you have to program for half an hour just to get a C++ environment for your application. The best thing is that Arduino brings together two worlds of tinkerers: the hardware/electronics guys now have a lot of software libraries available for free (drivers for a lot of hardware, filesystems), and the software/programming guys now have easy to use hardware modules, so they don't have to think too much about what kind of resistor this LED needs or how can I get a 3.3V supply for that GPS chip.