I have bought the arduino starter kit by fritzing ( http://fritzing.org/shop/starter-kit/ ) and played a little bit with it. Now I want to know how to create own circuits. How do I know what to put where? I know how to code, but are there tutorials on creating circuits out there I can read?
Here are the answers to a similar question on StackOverflow a while back: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1690284/getting-started-with-arduino/" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1690284/getting-started-w...</a><p>(Mine's the top one...)
I don't know if they're still available, but the Forrest Mims electronics books that they used to sell at radio shack are absolutely awesome, teach theory and have tons of simple (and not so simple) circuits you can build. They're mostly analog though, digital is much easier, just connect a few parts together and then it's all code.
There's a bunch of good Arduino tutorials here with nice pics too <a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/Tutorials" rel="nofollow">http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/Tutorials</a>
I still do not get the point of an Arduino though. Its just an avr board with supporting circuitry. If you know C, picking up on avr-gcc is a day or twos job. Where was the need to have the new language? Where did all the hype came from?