[psgarcha] took a year-old Arduino Uno on an international trip and upon returning found something was wrong. Every time he would try to upload, he would get the dreaded avrdude error, ‘stk50… ...

Installing the library is as easy as checking out the code from GitHub into your Arduino install, so that’s exactly what I did. I then spent a couple days playing around with it.

Some of the first steps toward working with Arduino is understanding how to write code for it. The good news is that it's made with beginners in mind.