First Session & Early thoughts

Arduino - is a micro control board. It's based on a hardware and software collaboration and it is intended for anyone wanting to create interactive objects or environment.
The micro control board sense the environment via data from different sensors and can change surrounding in different ways.
Arduino is designed to be used on various operating systems e.g. Pc's and mac's, the software uses a programming language called java.
When plugged into a computer you can control things using pins - wording which goes orange are recognised by the computer.

  

First session has been interesting however some of the information went over my head... next session I'll come back rejuvenated and ready to learn some more :)