microcontrollers

Good resources for getting into microcontrollers and programming them? Stuff like sensors, nothing complicated like robots.

 
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vip quality. lel

I bought a leostick not long ago ^^

http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

Step 1) discard all sanity
Step 2) Buy PICAXE, program in PICAXE BASIC

Seriously though, just buy arduino and start building shit. The Arduino software is shit, but you can program it with avrdude and just write normal AVR C code (throw shitty arduino libs away) that you compile with avr-gcc.