CHAPTER 11
Making and Sharing Electronics
Arduino
As you will see in this chapter, there is a ton of open-source electronics projects to automate and control almost anything you like. One project in particular has made this possible: the Arduino. An Arduino (www.arduino.cc ) is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use microcontroller hardware and open-source software. Think of the Arduino as a lightweight brain enabling you to complete any automation-related task. Originally, it was developed as an electronics prototyping platform for design students in Italy by Massimo Banzi and David Cuartielles. They were frustrated that teaching design students the complicated engineering skills necessary to program a conventional microcontroller ...
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