What is Arduino?
Feb 21, 2017 14:41:10 GMT
Post by c3po on Feb 21, 2017 14:41:10 GMT
What is Arduino?
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's cheap - a basic Arduino clone is less than £5
Arduino boards are able to read inputs - a radio control receiver signal, light on a sensor, a finger on a button - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, triggering a sound.
You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board.
Here is an example of a complete program to make an LED flash
What skills do I need?
If you can download and install software from the internet and connect a USB lead between your computer and an Arduino then your ready to run your first program!
It can be confusing knowing where to start sometimes or you may think that its just to complicated for you – well hopefully this website can point you in the right direction and show you just how simple it really is.
If you get stuck - make a posting in the help section - most of us will have got stuck at the same point in our journey with Arduino so we will be able to help you....
There are tens of thousands of hobbyists using Arduino’s, lots of pre-written code to download, tutorials to watch, free help forums where you can post your questions – the internet has some truly great resources to help you on your journey – enjoy!
PS. If you have a completed project you would like to share with others then post it on this site
Why not search on Google or YouTube for Arduino – you will see just how big this little board is! - last time I Googled "Arduino" I got 62 million links
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's cheap - a basic Arduino clone is less than £5
Arduino boards are able to read inputs - a radio control receiver signal, light on a sensor, a finger on a button - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on an LED, triggering a sound.
You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board.
Here is an example of a complete program to make an LED flash
void setup()
{
pinMode(7, OUTPUT); // initialize digital pin 7 as an output
}
void loop() // the loop function runs over and over again forever
{
digitalWrite(7, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(1000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(7, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay(1000); // wait for a second
}
What skills do I need?
If you can download and install software from the internet and connect a USB lead between your computer and an Arduino then your ready to run your first program!
It can be confusing knowing where to start sometimes or you may think that its just to complicated for you – well hopefully this website can point you in the right direction and show you just how simple it really is.
If you get stuck - make a posting in the help section - most of us will have got stuck at the same point in our journey with Arduino so we will be able to help you....
There are tens of thousands of hobbyists using Arduino’s, lots of pre-written code to download, tutorials to watch, free help forums where you can post your questions – the internet has some truly great resources to help you on your journey – enjoy!
PS. If you have a completed project you would like to share with others then post it on this site
Why not search on Google or YouTube for Arduino – you will see just how big this little board is! - last time I Googled "Arduino" I got 62 million links