Publisher's Synopsis
Arduino basicsA guide for beginners in the development of arduino projectsIntroduction to Arduino UnoArduino Uno is a microcontroller board developed by Arduino.cc which is an open-source electronics platform mainly based on AVR microcontroller Atmega328.First Arduino project was started in Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in 2003 by David Cuartielles and Massimo Banzi with the intention of providing a cheap and flexible way to students and professional for controlling a number of devices in the real world.The current version of Arduino Uno comes with USB interface, 6 analog input pins, 14 I/O digital ports that are used to connect with external electronic circuits. Out of 14 I/O ports, 6 pins can be used for PWM output.It allows the designers to control and sense the external electronic devices in the real world.This board comes with all the features required to run the controller and can be directly connected to the computer through USB cable that is used to transfer the code to the controller using IDE (Integrated Development Environment) software, mainly developed to program Arduino. IDE is equally compatible with Windows, MAC or Linux Systems, however, Windows is preferable to use. Programming languages like C and C++ are used in IDE.Apart from USB, battery or AC to DC adopter can also be used to power the board.Arduino Uno boards are quite similar to other boards in Arduino family in terms of use and functionality, however, Uno boards don't come with FTDI USB to Serial driver chip.There are many versions of Uno boards available, however, Arduino Nano V3 and Arduino Uno are the most official versions that come with Atmega328 8-bit AVR Atmel microcontroller where RAM memory is 32KB.When nature and functionality of the task go complex, Mirco SD card can be added in the boards to make them store more information.
