The Arduino is a family of micro controllers which contains chips and components mounted on a printed circuit board. It was developed by Arduino.cc. Arduino are programmable and reprogrammable. They can be use to turn on and off an LED repeatedly under the amount of time coded by a programmer, publish a tweet online, drive motors, turn on a push button and just anything you can imagine. The Arduino is a very powerful microcontroller socket board which is cheap to purchase. It's a great choice for hobbyists and those who wants to get their hands dirty with automation and robotics. This device is a popular choice among hobbyists, engineers and professionals. It can be use to make a 3D printer, CNC machine, simple and complex robots and automations. The Arduino is beginner friendly anyone with little knowledge in electronics can learn it easily. It works just by working on some set of commands installed into it chips and then actuates an electronic components like a DC motor based on signals received from the environment, so this board can interact with the environment by means of sensors attached to it.
Types of Arduino.
There are many types of Arduino, they have different voltage capacities, amount of actutators they can power, number of input and output pins etc.
•Arduino uno.
The Arduino Uno is the most popular type of Arduino engineers, hobbyists and beginners are found of. It's easy to use, beginner friendly and cost less. It has 14 input/output pins and 6 pins. It is programmed with a language c++ language but not fully C++.
It's based on ATmega32P microcontroller and developed by Arduino.cc
•Arduino lilypad.
The Arduino lilypad is an option for wearables and projects which needs to be sewed onto textiles and clothes.
Its small size makes it applicable in wearables like gesture controll systems.
Arduino lilypad is based on ATmega168V microchip and designed by Leah buechley.
•Arduino nano.
The Arduino Nano is smaller in size than the Uno and has many features than it. It's based on ATmega328 chip. It can power much actutators without using extensions like the uno.
•Red board.
The only difference between the Uno and red board is the USB interface and the
•Leonardo.
It is based on ATmega32u4 microchip. It has 20 input and output pins, 12 can be use as analog inputs while 7 can be use as PWM(pulse width modulation) output.
•Arduino mega.
The Arduino Mega is based on ATmega 2560. It has 54 digital and output pins.
It's commonly use by professionals to make complex automation.
•Arduino DUE.
It's a very powerful board which finds many applications in IOT devices, wearables and solid robotics.
The Arduino DUE is a microcontroller board based on Atmel cortex-M3 micro chip. It's the first Arduino board based on 32 bit ARM core microcontroller.
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