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Under the Hood
The nice thing about the Arduino is that a lot of the time, you really do not need to know what goes on behind the scenes when you upload a sketch. However, as you get more into Arduino and want to push the envelope of what it can do, you need to find out a bit more about what’s going on under the hood.
In this chapter you will learn about what goes on in the background when Arduino boards are programmed from the Arduino IDE. In the next chapter you will find out how “Arduino compatible” boards can be programmed using the Arduino IDE. These Arduino compatibles often use hardware that is very different from “real” Arduino boards.
A Brief History of Arduino
The first Arduino board was developed back in 2005 in Italy at the Interaction ...
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