Arduino & Arduino Micro for newbies

Question for anybody here who has experience with arduinos.

For someone who is new to them but yet can deal with working with wires/pcb and can do programming, Is it too complicated/much to jump straight into a arduino micro to use in a project or is it really best to just get the whole starter kit?

I am more looking towards the Micro as I want to use it to do analog/digital conversions for some arcade projects (so nothing overly complicated). So it's smaller size & cheaper price are a huge win for me.

 

The only real issue with the micro is that it won't directly connect to the expansion boards ("shields"), but it sounds like that's not a problem for your application. For playing around, it connects nicely to a solderless breadboard, and then just build a breakout board with a socket on it. If you are comfortable with soldering and prototyping, then the micro is all you need.

 

Cool. Thanks for the info.

Quick question, What is the meaning of "headers" for arduino. Is one just the lack of pins already in the unit? Just want to make sure I got that right (plan to go with out the pins).

 

Yeah, they are just pin headers - if you are planning to solder wires directly to the board, you don't need them.