Prototyping is at the heart of the Arduino Way: we make things and build objects that interact with objects, people, and networks. We strive to find a simpler, faster, and cheaper way to prototype.
A lot of beginners who are approaching electronics for the first time think that they have to learn how to build everything from scratch. This is a waste of energy: what you want is to be able to confirm that something’s working very quickly so that you can motivate yourself to take the next step or maybe even motivate somebody else to give you a lot of cash to take the next step.
This is why we developed opportunistic prototyping: why spend time and energy building from scratch, a process that requires time and in-depth technical knowledge, when we can take ready-made devices and hack them in order to exploit the hard work done by large companies and good engineers?
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