What is an Arduino? What he does?
What are its components and connectors?
The family of Arduino, the expansion of its features and what you need to know before using an Arduino.
Arduino is a plate manufactured in Italy used as electronic prototyping platform that makes it more accessible to all robotics. Italian project started in 2005 was primarily educational nature and interacted with school applications.
The Arduino boards are comprised of controller Atmel 8-bit AVR, digital and analog pin input and output, USB input - allowing connection to computers - or serial and has open code, which when modified, gives rise to other derivatives " ino "- which for commercial reasons - bear names like Netduino, Produino and Garagino. The Arduino board does not have any network resources, but can be combined with other Arduinos creating extensions shields calls (see below).
The power supply receives power by an external voltage of at least 7 volts and 35 volts maximum to minimum current of 300mA. The board and other circuits operate with voltages between 5 and 3.3 volts. Built in Arduino's still a firmware - which combines ROM for reading and a program recorded in this type of memory - loaded on the controller board memory, which supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
In terms of software, Arduino may have features developed by means of C / C ++, which uses a graphical interface written in Java. The Arduino IDE functions allow the development of software that can be executed by the device.
The Arduino then, is an electronic open platform for prototyping software-based and hardware-free, flexible and easy to use. Was developed for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Arduino can acquire environmental information through its input pins, so that a full range of sensors may be used. On the other hand, can act Arduino
the environment controlling lights, motors or other actuators.
The fields of activity for the control systems are immense and may have applications in 3D printing area, robotics, transportation engineering, agricultural engineering,
music, fashion and many others.
The designs developed Arduino can be performed even without needing to be connected to a computer, although it may also be made by communicating with different types of software (such as Flash, or MaxMSP Processing).
The plates can be made by hand or purchased factory fitted. The software download can be done for free and card designs are available under an open license, so you are also free to adapt it to your needs.