I recently started my master's program in Interactive Telecommunications at NYU, and one of my first classes is ITP Physical Computing. I remember working on a science fair project in 8th grade, where I was excited to learn about Arduino and tried to incorporate it into a pulse meter project. Although that project didn’t succeed, I felt the same excitement years later when I reencountered Arduino. As I work on my projects, feel free to follow my progress and see if I can handle a microcontroller.