Introduction

The Arduino Way is a philosophy based on making things rather than talking about them. It is a constant search for faster and more powerful ways to build better prototypes. We have explored many prototyping techniques and developed ways of thinking with our hands.

Classic engineering relies on a strict process for getting from A to B; the Arduino Way delights in the possibility of getting lost on the way and finding C instead.

The Arduino Way is the tinkering process that we are fond of — playing with the medium in an open-ended way and finding the unexpected. In this search for ways to build better prototypes, we have selected a number of software packages that enable the process of constant manipulation of the software and hardware medium.

The next few sections present some philosophies, events, and pioneers that have inspired the Arduino Way.