Firstly, there are quite a few variants of the arduino processor boards, so you need to decide which one to use. The home page site is https://www.arduino.cc/ Getting started info at https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage Wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino There is a list here of some open source projects to give you an idea of what can be done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects Type in "arduino projects getting started" in your browser for lots of links. There is so much info on the web it may appear overwhelming. As a student, you are going to have to do some reading, and make some choices. If you have not done any or much coding, then you have to learn that as well. The IDE supplied does the job, but is far from optimum. All the best, cheers, Richard
