A number of people believe that the Arduino
board is only a microcontroller, which is certainly inaccurate. In fact, the
Arduino board is really a specially designed circuit board for programming and
prototyping with Atmel microcontrollers.
The most important thing of the
Arduino board is that it is not so much expensive and it is able to plug
straight into a computer's USB port straightly, and it is very easy to set up
and use. A lot of the key A good Arduino Uno
generally contains some characters as bellow:
The first character of an Arduino Uno is designed with open source, only in
this way can we use it to find someone to help us modify our projects
easily.
Second, it can plug straightly into our USB ports and register with our
computer system like a digital serial port. So, even though it is a serial
device, we can also interface with it.
It must have a very convenient function of electrical power management and
built-in voltage regulation. No matter whether you have an external power or
not, it also can be charged anyway.
A cheap but good use microcontroller is necessary. The ATmega328 chip retails
for about $2.88 on Yasurs. It has a great
many of good hardware characteristics like timers, external and internal
interrupts, and a number of sleep modes.
It will be a smart choice if it has a 16mhz clock. This would make it not the
speediest microcontroller, but a very fast one.
It also has 13 digital
pins and 6 analog pins, which allows you to connect external hardware to your
Arduino. If you want to extend the computing capability of the Arduino into the
real world, these pins are the first thing you should consider. And then, all
you need to is plug your devices and sensors into the sockets that correspond to
each of these pins.
The last but not least, it need a button to reset the program.
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