Amarino basically consists of three main parts (two mandatory and one optional):

• Android application called "Amarino"
• Arduino library called "MeetAndroid"
• Amarino Plug-In Bundle (optional)

If you want to work with Amarino you need at least:

• An Android phone (Android 2.x works best, however Android 1.6 is also supported but not all models will work, e.g. HTC Hero and Samsung Behold II with Android 1.x won't work)
• An Arduino board (Lilypad, Duemilanove, ArduinoBT ...)
• A Bluetooth shield for your Arduino. (BlueSMiRF Gold and Bluetooth Mate do well. Also much cheaper modules like SURE Bluetooth GP-GC021 and Seeed Studio Bluetooth module have been reported to work flawlessly, but are a bit tricky to use)
• Some electronic components to make your Arduino happy (whatever you need to realize your ideas)

IMPORTANT!!! Please set your Bluetooth module to 57600 baud (using Putty or other Terminal programs) otherwise you will get corrupted data. Only the Arduino BT board works with 115200 baud without flaws.

We designed the toolkit so that it is easy for you to start without Android programming knowledge at all, however you should invest some time to become familiar with Arduino. There are tons of Arduino tutorials out there which will help you to quickly get first results.

Once your Arduino environment is set up and you managed to do your first steps with it, you can start to install the toolkit.