Sunday, January 1, 2017

What is Arduino and Introduction to Arduino Uno

Arduino - It is not just a micro-controller but a complete device using which you can learn programming, a good start for a beginner, easy to code, explore possibilities, play with LED's, start implementing new things by coding them and debug them without much hassle and many more things.

It has everything what a hobbyist needs to learn and a toy to explore more if you are trying to make a big interactive project.

What it consists of -

On-board power supply.
USB port to communicate with PC.
An Atmel microcontroller chip.
I/O pins to code and control electronics component.
and most importantly an open source platform to rebuild the idea and N number of coding ways.

Everything is on a single chip device hence it has been named as ARDUINO by the Arduino community.

Arduino has a big family structure with different boards for different needs but for the basic learning and use we choose Arduino Uno for it's convenience.


The Arduino Uno Structure and schematic Diagram with component names is as follows -






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