Post-tutorials phase: How to get better at Arduino and electronics in general?

[LarryD]

• Welcome to the hobby.

• Once you master basic theory, you might get something out of the tips in this hardware discussion.

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• To protect your Arduino GPIOs and other hardware suggest you use this technique:

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Lets Protect Our Arduino From Us This has been covered a few times. The following will show how we can save our Arduino from ourselves. There are quite a few new Arduino users that damage their Arduinos by accidentally shorting output GPIO pins. Suggest new users (and some of us oldsters too) use the following technique to prevent output GPIOs Arduino pin damage. [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] Edit [LED Display X10 with Prewired Jumpers A] [LED Display X1…