Arduino, first hands on

The Arduino seemed pretty nice. I like the idea that you don't have to have it plugged in to a computer while it's running. And second, it's cheap. Even though I never written anything in the Arduino language, it seemed fairly fairly easy to get started with. It was a bit crowded (6 persons on one Arduino) so I didn't try to connect anything to the Arduino or the breadboard. Hopefully I would try that out later. I'm not that good with circuits, so i would like to learn something about that. But we got both input and output working. I think I prefer Arduino over Phidgets simply because you don't have to plug Arduino to a computer, hence more mobility.