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What is Arduino?

Arduino is an open-source electronics platform, which is based on easy-to-use hardware and software. A non-technical person, but having interest to develop some electronic hobby project, can also work on this.

Programming is so easy that a layman can understand and play with it. However, hardware knowledge is required. Since if any mistake is done then hardware can be destroyed and it is about losing money. So be careful from hardware point of view.

The board design is open source; it means that anyone is allowed to product Arduino compatible boards. This is the reason you can find Arduino board in less price also.

Software for sketching is free as well.

 

Types of Arduino

There are many types of Arduino; few of them are given below.

  1. Arduino UNO: The Arduino UNO is the best board to get started with electronics and coding. This is a simplest board from Arduino series. It is robust as well. The microcontroller used in this is Atmel 328. There are total 14 digital Input/output. Means you can use them as input as well as output, by defining them in your sketch. In Arduino world, program is referred as ‘sketch’.


Technical Specification given below
























  1. Arduino NANO: This is the smallest Arduino board. This is smaller than UNO in size but it has more input/output pins to use.


Technical Specification given below


 

  1. Arduino Leonardo: This board has some advance features. One of them is that it can work as mouse or keyboard.

            Technical Specification given below


 

  1. Arduino Mega 2560: It has 54 digital.



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What can you do with Arduino?

You can make many small & big electronic projects with Arduino very easily.

You can control electronic appliance, control a car, or even make a robot with Arduino very easily. Since there are many libraries available for Bluetooth, IR communication etc. kind of communication.

Arduino user community is very big; you can find solution for almost every problem related to Arduino.

So let us start the journey of Arduino.

Before jumping to Arduino software programming.

We need to understand hardware very carefully, as I have already mentioned that a small mistake in hardware connection can destroy your board.






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