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Arduino

Arduino
Arduino Logo.svg Genuino Logo.svg
Arduino Uno - R3.jpg
Arduino Uno SMD R3
Developer Arduino
Manufacturer Many
Type Single-board microcontroller
Operating system None
CPU Atmel AVR (8-bit),
ARM Cortex-M0+ (32-bit),
ARM Cortex-M3 (32-bit),
Intel Quark (x86) (32-bit)
Memory SRAM
Storage Flash, EEPROM
Website arduino.cc
Arduino Software IDE
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Screenshot of the Arduino IDE showing the Blink simple beginner program
Developer(s) Arduino Software
Stable release
1.8.1 / 9 January 2017; 11 days ago (2017-01-09)
Repository github.com/arduino/Arduino
Written in Java, C, C++
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux
Platform IA-32, x86-64, ARM
Type Integrated development environment
License LGPL or GPL license
Website arduino.cc

Arduino is a computer hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures microcontroller kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world. The project's products are distributed as open-source hardware and software, which are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL), permitting the manufacture of Arduino boards and software distribution by anyone. Arduino boards are available commercially in preassembled form, or as do-it-yourself kits.

The project's board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. These systems provide sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards ("shields") and other circuits. The boards feature serial communications interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB) on some models, for loading programs from personal computers. The microcontrollers are mainly programmed using a dialect of features from the programming languages C and C++. In addition to using traditional compiler toolchains, the Arduino project provides an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Processing language project.

The Arduino project started in 2005 as a program for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy, aiming to provide a low-cost and easy way for novices and professionals to create devices that interact with their environment using sensors and actuators. Common examples of such devices intended for beginner hobbyists include simple robots, thermostats, and motion detectors.


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