I obviously do a lot of Steampunk projects, but there are a ton of things out there that I haven't tried yet. So, in an effort to broaden my horizons, I recently taught myself how to use Arduinos, which I plan to incorporate into some of my future Steampunk builds. Since there will be some Arduino-related projects in Steampunk R&D coming soon, I decided to write this basic guide for how to use Arduino microcontrollers, so that I (and you) can refer back to it in the future. This guide is spe...