Ideas to extend the Elf Kit

Here are some ideas to extend your Musical Elf Ornament: Add more lines to Jingle Bells music code Replace code for Jingle Bell with music selection of your own You can use the music sheets and music reference table to do come up the code for...

Musical Elf Ornament Kit Troubleshooting

The Digispark USB Arduino pushes affordable, small components to their limits by using software to emulate USB functions generally served by a dedicated chip. Certain laptops, older machines, and just some cheaply made USB hubs/controllers do not like this. We tested...

Disabling Gatekeeper on a Mac computer

This is required to use the Digistump Arduino IDE – you only need to complete these steps once. Why do I have to unlock my security to install the Arduino IDE software? Is this safe? Apple has a developer policy that requires developers to choose to work inside...

Arduino Reference Books and Tutorials

Here are a few eBooks that we recommend for beginning Arduino Programmers: Arduino Comic (free) – created by Jody Culkin (2011): A very simple introduction to Arduino that will help you out during your first days. Arduino Programming Notebook – written by...