This gitbook is a guide for beginners who have their hands on a Magnolia board from the L.A. Robotics club, originally developed as a Kickstarter campaign to produce an Arduino inspired robotics starter kit for a very meagre sum of $5 per board.
This guide is for those who already have their board, have an FTDI board, and a USB cable.
The lessons cover the very basics of Arduino, and hopefully also give good foundations in electronics that will help you search and learn more easily on your own.
In addition to basic tutorials on arduino related functions, there are also lessons on working around the limitations of the Magnolia board (such as not having PWM, or having only 6 IO ports.)
The original project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annikaskywalker/microprocessor-about-the-cost-and-size-of-a-pack-o
Magnolia is an Open Hardware project, the schematics are available here http://www.annikaobrien.com/magnolia
A subreddit has formed: http://www.reddit.com/r/MagnoliaBoard