Arduino

Getting Started With Arduino Board A wide range of boards are manufactured by Arduino. These have different sizes, different microcontrollers, and different processing capabilities. For information about the Arduino UNO R3 board, refer the topic Arduino UNO R3 in the basics section of Arduino. You can refer  this link  to check out the various Arduino boards available. In order to write codes for various applications and to program the Arduino boards, we require the Arduino IDE. The Arduino IDE is available for download on the Arduino website. Since Arduino is open source, the IDE is available for free. You can download the latest version for your operating system from  here . Online IDE is also available. To use the online IDE, an account needs to be created on the Arduino website. For information on how to use the online IDE,  click here . Refer the topic Using Arduino IDE and Adding a new library to Arduino IDE and using it in the ba

Introduction to Arduino What is Arduino ? Arduino platform offers open source hardware and software that is easy to use and is used widely for hobby projects and prototyping. Open Source ? When it is said that Arduino is an open source platform, it means that all the information regarding the hardware and software that Arduino provides is freely available and can be used by anyone. They provide the designs for their hardware and software which can be used by anyone. Anyone can use these designs to manufacture the hardware and can distribute the software, no licenses are required. Why Arduino ? Arduino provides many types of boards which are useful for various applications. Arduino also provides its own IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which is free to download from Arduino’s website and use. Many libraries are provided with the software and a large number of libraries developed by people from around the world are available for free. The function