How hard could it be to build a robot? Find out with this $20 guide.

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By TEAM COMMERCEMashable Deals2019-01-17 16:44:10 UTC

Are you looking for a new hobby to keep your hands busy this year? Are you hankering for that sense of accomplishment one gets after fashioning something remarkable with their bare hands? You’ve come to the right place.

We’re not going to propose that you distract your fingers with fidget spinners (that is so 2017), nor are we going to advise that you pick up pottery, or finger painting, or even knitting (although those are all viable hobbies). We do suggest, however, that you start tinkering with Arduino, a revolutionary open-source platform that you can customize to spawn an assemblage of creative projects including toy robots, sensor devices, and wearables.

With The Make: Arduino Hacker eBook Bundle — now on sale for $19.99 at the Mashable Shop — you’ll get the proper guidance and instruction to build all sorts of fun gizmos and unleash your inner Doc Brown.

This collection of ebooks, which are all exclusively published by Maker Media (the company responsible for the popular Maker Faire), features 15 different handbooks that are all geared to helping you become a full-fledged inventor. 

There are introductory courses about Arduino which would give you a full understanding of what it is and what makes it tick, along with step-by-step instructional manuals that will teach you how to engineer interesting projects that run the gamut from multicolor flashing lights and noise monitors to drink dispensers and music synthesizers. There’s even an included software intensive course where you’ll learn how to code and write scripts for your DIY electronics projects.

When bought separately, all of these ebooks will require you to fork out $277.85, but for a limited time, you can buy them as a set at the Mashable Shop for only $19.99 — a savings of 92%.

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