introduction to arduino and its advantages:

Introduction :

               Arduino is an open-source computer hardware and software company that designs and manufacture kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control the physical world.

Open source means we can purchased reassembled , or do it yourself kits or make one our-self. The hardware design can be found on (arduino.cc) and the software source code can also be found there also we can use the same software without any modifications.

Basically Arduino comes with Atmel family processors(8bit -32bit). These are one type of development boards. They contain few sets of digital and analog I/O pins that can be interfaced to various extension boards and other circuits. Apart from I/O pins it has serial communication ports UTAR pins PWM pins and so on depending on different boards (ex:uno ,uno adk, mega. tiny and so on). For programming purpose Arduino provides integrated development environment(IDE) based on processing project (processing .org) basically a compiler and can be programmed using c and c++.

Advantages:
1. simple coding techniques
2. flexibility
3. low cost
4. large community and forum support
5. large number of connectivity (sensors)
6. user friendly and one can learn it in less that 10 days for sure
7. no need for soldering and burning code externally
8. plug and play(simply connect to computer and play with it)
9. cross platform
10. open source