I highly recommend it. I waited and had my gf buy me one for christmas because I was afraid it would be a gadget I'd never ennd up using, and I get more upset about wasting money than I do about wasting presents.
I had her get me the inventor's kit from sparkfun since it seems to come with a decent # of starter parts, and has a collection of projects you can do with them. I haven't been able to stop playing with my Arduino and I'm alredy ordering more parts and X10 controllers and such, and I only got through the 4th project before I started doing my own thing like having it communicate with the computer.
I had her get me the inventor's kit from sparkfun since it seems to come with a decent # of starter parts, and has a collection of projects you can do with them. I haven't been able to stop playing with my Arduino and I'm alredy ordering more parts and X10 controllers and such, and I only got through the 4th project before I started doing my own thing like having it communicate with the computer.