Arduino Micro-Controller Platform

Arduino is an open-source single-board micro-controller platform. Utilizing hardware and software libraries from that project and related subprojects can result in considerable time savings in your project or production process.

Arduino has been designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and on-board I/O support. The software consists of a standard programming language compiler and the boot loader that runs on the board.

An upcoming aricle will introduce this platform describing available product sources, application potentials and how to interface with existing infrastructure, like Linux systems.

Related resources:

• Homepage of the Arduino project