Tuesday, October 11, 2011

What is Arduino : Introduction to Arduino

What is Arduino? Arduino is a tool for making computers to sense and control more of the physical world than the computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board. Arduino is an open source electronics platform accompanied with a hardware and software to design, develop and test complex electronics prototypes and products. The hardware consists of a microcontroller with other electronic components which can be programmed using the software to do almost any task. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and on-board I/O support. The software consists of a standard programming language compiler and the bootloader that runs on the board
Steps for getting started with Arduino
  • Get an Arduino board and USB cable
  • Download the Arduino environment
  • Connect the board
  • Install the drivers
  • Launch the Arduino application
  • Open the blink example
  • Select your board
  • Select your serial port
  • Upload the program
Check out the latest Arduino Projects

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