boxand some PCBs

what is it all about?

Let’s go back in history

Once upon a timethere was an 8051 micro controller

Ah, forget it.

History is nice, but why bother

What you really need to know is

Microcontroller is a computer in a chip

aka small black box with a lot of pins

And thenthere was this Italian dude

Massimo Banziand friends

Drum roll please

Heeeere’s duinoI mean Ar…

A lot of boards

uno, due, Leonardo, Yun, Tre, Zero, Micro, Esplora,

Mega, Ethernet, Mega 2560, Robot, Mini, Nano ….

Just check arduino.ccfor the latest count

But it is just a boardso how to communicate with THE REAL world?

I present youthe shield

Ooops…wrong image

I present youthe shield(s)

Lots, LOTSof them

It’s open way of design, after all

So if there is no shield to satisfy you.

You can build one.

But how do you make it communicate?

Arduino IDE

But it only works on Windows

and Mac OSX

and Linux

Oh, wait ….

it works EVERYWHERE

Yes, I was kidding with “it only works on Windows”

Yes, it is a bad joke.

No, I will not repeat that.

Back to the topic.

Coding for Arduino is like coding in C

Oh, wait … it is C.

But it’s really easy.analog read and send data to computer

There are libraries.

And a lot of ideas all over the inter webs[1]

[1] 2009. Die Antwoord, Enter the ninja

You can wear Arduino

in a heartbeat

Have some automation to do?

Enter the Arduino

That is all nice and dandy, but you can’t create a smart watch

I’m glad you asked

:)

You can do, whatever you want.

Seriously.

And remember kids.

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