Eis um post de um blog muito interessante sobre as 10 primeiras coisas que se faz quando se compra uma board de arduino :), aqui fica um resumo das dez etapas:
1 – Make it blink
2 – Make it blink faster (or slower)
3 – Make a function to make the Arduino blink
4 – Send stuff over the serial port from the Arduino to your PC
5 – Merge the LED blinking with the Serial
6 – Send something from the computer to the Arduino… and back…
7 – Combine the Serial sending with blinking
8 – Put everything together in one big mega program – count, blink, echo, and blink again
9 – Copy and paste
10 – Meet people on the web who use Arduinos