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Visual Micro plugs right in to VS and works a treat.
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I started with a sampler pack that came with a selection of LEDs, , pots, resistors, capacitors, buttons, a motor and a servo, MOSFets, h-bridge, LCD display, breadboard etc and a starter "Arduino Projects" book. The projects in it are very basic, though. There are plenty of references on the web, and the standard IDE is very basic so I use Visual Micro in Visual Studio. Doesn't cost much, and works well. If you're already experience with C++ and embedded systems and hardware you'll be flying in no time.
If you buy 3rd party copies of the arduino you may have to install a different USB driver - the CH340 chip is widely used.
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Raspberry Pi is supposedly better.
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Yeah. You don't want Arduino, you want PlatformIO and ESP32 or ESP8266.
My 2c.
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to begin with, simple projects can be done with the online Arduino IDE. They also have an
offline version[^]. I don't imagine you will be doing anything complex to begin with, well at least I'm not a hardware guru so I take things slowly
I got an "Arduino" kit off ebay on the cheap, with a breadboard. It works, although it came without any description of the included sensors, but you can use google to figure things out through the identification numbers on various chips. Or buy one of the official UNO starter packs from the website
as for books, I have one, but it is merely an explanation of the sample projects included in Arduino IDE for people that don't know much about programming. So that wasn't much use for me. But I got one "electronics for dummies" book that explains the basics about circuits, if you need that kind of info
hth
nikos
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I am just making the jump into Arduino myself. I bought one of the Elegoo kits (Arduino clone), and it seems to come with plenty of documentation plus online resources.
I haven't seen any of the USB driver issues that get mentioned, but I am just starting, so I can't say it won't.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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If dust mites live on the floor, do dust tites live on the ceiling?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Dust tites live on retired ballerinas.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well, they might . . . .
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What cave did you unearth that one from?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Or should we really be calling it a Distro like Linux does? It's grown far beyond the definition of what an OS is and does.
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Windows started out way above what an OS is with all the pre-installed applications - it is the main reason of its success...
But in contrast with the Linux based distros it is only one, while the distros share a core (the actual OS) and add several layers of usability of different flavors, so they are many...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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What does it matter either way, what we call it does not change what it is or does.
I hear a lot of people prefer the term "piece of crap" anyway.
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musefan wrote: "piece of crap"
Those are the polite ones 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Sh..ocking! I did not intend to be polite!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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There are gazillions different flavors of Linux; so each flavor is a distro.|
There is only one version of Windows, yes I know there are some variants like Home, Pro, but it's not the same a Linux distros.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I see those as distros in a way. There's also Embedded which is highly customizable, Server and Windows X10 soon.
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Linux takes some beating as a server , but as a a Desktop I'm with Windows
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Windows is a GUI atop an OS.
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I think you misspelled GUANO.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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