Saturday, 23 February 2013

A open source platform............ARDUINO







Microcontroller                                         ATmega328
Operating Voltage                                         5V
Input Voltage (recommended)            7-12V
Input Voltage (limits)                             6-20V
Digital I/O Pins                                         14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)
Analog Input Pins                                         6
DC Current per I/O Pin                          40 mA
DC Current for 3.3V Pin                         50 mA
Flash Memory                                           32 KB (ATmega328) of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader
SRAM                                                             2 KB (ATmega328)
EEPROM                                                     1 KB (ATmega328)
Clock Speed                                                 16 MHz


The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.


Arduino is an open source hardware and software. You can experiment and build lot of projects using arduino. No knowledge of embedded programming is required, just basic C program is enough to program the arduino board. 

The arduino IDE can be downloaded from

The board can be bought in local electronics store or through online. The online stores are






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