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This Is Arduino

Arduino is a microcontroller platform that has captured the imagination of


electronics enthusiasts. Its ease of use and open source nature make it a great
choice for anyone wanting to build electronic projects.
Ultimately, it allows you to connect electronics through its pins so that it can
control things—for instance, turn lights or motors on and off or sense things
such as light and temperature. This is why Arduino is sometimes given the
description physical computing. Because Arduinos can be connected to your
computer by a universal serial bus (USB) lead, this also means that you can use
the Arduino as an interface board to control those same electronics from your
computer.
This chapter is an introduction to the Arduino, including the history and
background of the Arduino, as well as an overview of the hardware.

Microcontrollers
The heart of your Arduino is a microcontroller. Pretty much everything else on
the board is concerned with providing the board with power and allowing it to
communicate with your desktop computer.
A microcontroller really is a little computer on a chip. It has everything and
more than the first home computers had. It has a processor, a kilobyte or two of
random access memory (RAM) for holding data, a few kilobytes of erasable
programmable read-only memory (EPROM) or flash memory for holding your
programs and it has input and output pins. These input/output (I/O) pins link the
microcontroller to the rest of your electronics.
Inputs can read both digital (is the switch on or off?) and analog (what is the
voltage at a pin?). This opens up the opportunity of connecting many different
types of sensor for light, temperature, sound, and more.

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