What is Arduino ? An Easy Introduction for Beginner

“Arduino” is an open-source electronics platform that allows anyone to create interactive devices easily. It consists of both hardware and software components.

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The most popular Arduino board is the Arduino Uno R3 which uses an Atmel 8-bit AVR microcontroller chip.

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The 14 digital I/O pins can be used to connect and control various electronic components like LEDs, motors, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), buttons etc.

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There are 6 analog input pins that can read analog voltages between 0 to 5V from sensors and convert them into digital values using analog-to-digital conversion (ADC).

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Application

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Home automation, Robotics, Weather monitoring, Game controllers, Drone, Internet of Things etc.

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The Arduino IDE uses a simplified C/C++ based language. The code is called a sketch. It uses standard C functions and some Arduino-specific libraries and functions.

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For more details about Arduino please see this article

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