Having decided on prototyping using the Arduino broad, and having little previous experience of doing so, it seemed sensible to go with the most popular starter board on the market, the Arduino Uno. It has been a while since the original board first appeared, and so the board brought was actually the third revision of the board, the R3.
When the board arrived it came in a moderately sized box for a board so relatively small. In part I think this is because a lot of these boards are brought by first timers, and the box is the first part of giving the customer some reassurance of the quality of the device inside.
When you open the box up (simply removing, or slitting the tape), you first find what looks like a colourful booklet, this turns out instead to be an A2 sheet which can be used as a two sided poster. If your looking for instructions on getting started, the only thing you really get is a link back to their website, this though I think is a very sensible approach, almost everybody has internet access 24/7, and rather than reprinting hard-copy instructions whenever a change is made to the hardware (or firmware), the latest information is always available.
Having taken the pamphlet out of the box you get your first sighting of the board itself, and a very well manufactured board it is.
Taking the board out of the box an it looks anything but hobbyist built, with all components perfectly aligned, and securely fixed.
Turn the board over, and you get an extra level of sophistication, with the board coloured in an inverted palette to the front, and plenty of information about the board itself.
That just leaves the final thing to do, plug it in and start playing.
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