What is Arduino?!!!!!!
- Arduino is a platform for building an Embedded System used to sense and control the physical world around it.
- Arduino was developed in Italy by Massimo Banzi and group which is Open Sourced (Hardware & Software) and available to everyone.
- Arduino is a small circuit board with an Atmel MicroController chip and other peripherals.
- Intended to be used by both professionals who loves to explore and non-technical people with no previous programming experience.
- In short Arduino is a "Rapid Electronics Prototyping Platform" having an open source hardware board possessing microcontroller and peripherals capable of sensing/controlling both analog and digital entities. The arduino software is an free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) runs on both Windows and Linux machine.