Publications:
“Join the Arduino Revolution; Everything you need to know to get started with the Arduino”
Make magazine – Issue 25.
A mass-market introduction to the Arduino IDE, including the use of prototyping shields, a description of several different boards, and detailed, clear, “beginner” instructions for constructing your own Arduino board. Make also has its own Arduino website: http://www.makezine.com/arduino
Jose Antonio Gutierrez Gnecchi, Daniel Lorias Espinoza and Victor Hugo Olivares Peregrino (2010). Microcontroller-based Biopotential Data Acquisition Systems: Practical Design Considerations, Data Acquisition, Michele Vadursi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-193-0, InTech,
Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/data-acquisition/microcontroller-based-biopotential-data-acquisition-systems-practical-design-considerations
A more theoretical than practical, but well-sourced and scholarly overview of the design considerations involved in using microcontroller boards in data acquisition.
K Daniliauskaite and S Dimitrove
Installation of DAQ board (Arduino), and software utilization examples
Aalborg Unversity: Medialogy MED2/MED4
Found at: http://imi.aau.dk/~sd/dlpidr/?d=%2Finstall%2Fdaq-install-examples-doc.pdf
Guide used in electronics courses at Aalborg University. A tutorial to setting up the Arduino IDE, with Flash and Max display options. Includes a section on using Bluetooth with the Arduino board.
Websites:
http://www.arduino.cc/
Extensive collection of resources for anyone interested in utilizing the Arduino IDE. Tutorials, software libraries, examples of complete routines, discussion boards, links to vendors, are all available here, in a well-organized, frequently updated site.
http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
Teensy boards are one of many Arduino alternatives. Apart from the small size, the advantage of the Teensy board is that the connection to the computer is a native USB connection and not a serial to USB conversion.
http://dam.mellis.org/2010/06/sensor_library_for_arduino/
“Sensor library for Arduino” by David Mellis
Arduino calls on routines, called Libraries, during the execution of functions. This library is designed specifically for programs utilizing sensors, and contains a workaround that allows faster sampling than the board is normally set for. There are links on this page to a pdf describing the library and how to incorporate it, and to the library irself.
https://sites.google.com/site/measuringstuff/the-arduino
“Measuring Stuff: The Arduino DAQ Chronicles”
The author (uncredited) calls this page “Using the Arduino as a Really Inexpensive DAQ”, and it is an excellent discussion of the functionality and limitations of using the Arduino board for data acquisition, with a focus on the sampling speed limitations and possible ways to get around them. Part of a very good, extensive, site about Arduino boards. The Home page is: https://sites.google.com/site/measuringstuff/home