boards in a few electronics shops, but people interested in electronics could
also download its schematic
1
and build it themselves.
Over the years, the Arduino team improved the board’s design and released
several new versions. They usually had Italian names, such as Uno, Duemi-
lanove, or Diecimila; you can find online a list of all boards ever created by
the Arduino team.
2
Here’s a small selection of Arduinos. They may differ in their appearance, but
they have a lot in common, and you can program them all with the same tools
and libraries.
Although they’re the same in principle, they differ in some details. The Arduino
Due
3
has many more IO pins than most of the other Arduinos and uses a
powerful 32-bit ARM core microcontroller, while the Arduino Nano
4
was
designed to be used on a breadboard, so it doesn’t have any sockets. From
my experience, beginners should start with one of the “standard” boards—that
is, with an Uno, for example.
1.
http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/arduino-uno-schematic.pdf
2. See
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Boards
and
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Products
.
3.
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDue
4.
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardNano
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