and a copy of "Arduino for Dummies". Don't really know what I want to do yet, but I'm pret-ty sure it's going to involve making blinkenlights, at least at first. Are there any must-have components ...

The Arduino Plug and Make Kit provides a 10-minute, cloud-based IoT solution that includes QWIIC and smartphone-based sensors, transducers, and actuators. Arduino’s new QWIIC-based UNO Plug and ...

First up at the $1 level you get five books including Exploring Arduino, Learning Python with Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Projects, BeagleBone for Dummies, and Raspberry Pi for Dummies (third edition).