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The document discusses the Arduino platform, including what it is, its main components and functions. It provides details on the Arduino board layout, describing features like the analog and digital pins, power supply, reset button, voltage regulator and more.

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ARDUINO

The document discusses the Arduino platform, including what it is, its main components and functions. It provides details on the Arduino board layout, describing features like the analog and digital pins, power supply, reset button, voltage regulator and more.

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ARDUINO

PARTS AND
FUNCTIONS
 Arduino is an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino
consists of both a physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a
microcontroller) and a piece of software, or IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer
code to the physical board.
 The Arduino platform has become quite popular with people just starting out with
electronics, and for good reason. Unlike most previous programmable circuit
boards, the Arduino does not need a separate piece of hardware (called a
programmer) in order to load new code onto the board – you can simply use a
USB cable. Additionally, the Arduino IDE uses a simplified version of C++, making it
easier to learn to program. Finally, Arduino provides a standard form factor that
breaks out the functions of the micro-controller into a more accessible package.

WHAT IS AN ARDUINO
 The Arduino hardware and software was designed for
artists, designers, hobbyists, hackers, newbies, and
anyone interested in creating interactive objects or
environments. Arduino can interact with buttons, LEDs,
motors, speakers, GPS units, cameras, the internet,
and even your smart-phone or your TV! This flexibility
combined with the fact that the Arduino software is
free, the hardware boards are pretty cheap, and both
the software and hardware are easy to learn has led
to a large community of users who have contributed
code and released instructions for a huge variety of
Arduino-based projects.

WHAT DOES IT DO?


USB PORT
Used to connect
the board with
your computer,
and also to
exchange data
with it.
POWER
SUPPLY JACK
Accepts 5.5 mm/
2.1mm DC barrel
Plug for Voltage 9v-
12v @2 Ampere
POWER

VIN:
PROVIDE POWER TO ARDUINO
GND:
GROUND PINS
5V:
PROVIDES 5v DC output
3.3V:
PROVIDES 3.3V DC output
RESET:
RESETS THE BOARD
IOREF:
GIVES THE VOLTAGE A CORRESPONDING
I/O OF THE RESPECTIVE BOARD, EXAMPLE AN
UNO WOULD SUPPLY 5V TO THIS PIN.
ANALOG
PINS
IS ONE THAT CAN TAKE
ON ANY NUMBER OF
VALUES, UNLIKE A
DIGITAL SIGNAL WHICH
HAS ONLY TWO VALUE
OF ANALOG SIGNALS,
THE ARDUINO HAS A
BUILT IN ANALOG TO
DIGITAL CONVERTER.
DIGITAL PINS
THE PINS ON THE ARDUINO
CAN BE CONFIGURED TO
EITHER INPUTS OR OUTPUTS.
PINS 3 5 6 9 10 AND 11 ARE
PWM ENABLED( pulse width
modulation). PWM IS
ACHIEVED BY RAPIDLY
VARYING THE OUTPUT
BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW
FOR THE DESIRED
PERCENTAGE OF TIME
AREF RESET
Just like the original Nintendo, the
Stands for Analog Arduino has a reset button (10).
Reference. Most of the time Pushing it will temporarily connect
you can leave this pin the reset pin to ground and restart
any code that is loaded on the
alone. It is sometimes used Arduino. This can be very useful if
to set an external reference your code doesn’t repeat, but you
voltage (between 0 and 5 want to test it multiple times. Unlike
Volts) as the upper limit for the original Nintendo however,
blowing on the Arduino doesn’t
the analog input pins. usually fix any problems.
POWER LED
INDICATOR
This LED should light up
whenever you plug
your Arduino into a
power source. If this
light doesn’t turn on,
there’s a good chance
something is wrong.
Time to re-check your
circuit!
TX RX LEDS
TX is short for transmit, RX is short for
receive. These markings appear quite
a bit in electronics to indicate the pins
responsible for serial communication.
In our case, there are two places on
the Arduino UNO where TX and RX
appear – once by digital pins 0 and 1,
and a second time next to the TX and
RX indicator LEDs (12). These LEDs will
give us some nice visual indications
whenever our Arduino is receiving or
transmitting data (like when we’re
loading a new program onto the
board).
MAIN IC
IC, or Integrated Circuit (13). Think of it
as the brains of our Arduino. The main IC
on the Arduino is slightly different from
board type to board type, but is usually
from the ATmega line of IC’s from the
ATMEL company. This can be important,
as you may need to know the IC type
(along with your board type) before
loading up a new program from the
Arduino software. This information can
usually be found in writing on the top
side of the IC. If you want to know more
about the difference between various
IC’s, reading the datasheets is often a
good idea.
VOLTAGE
REGULATOR
The voltage regulator (14) is not actually
something you can (or should) interact with on
the Arduino. But it is potentially useful to know
that it is there and what it’s for. The voltage
regulator does exactly what it says – it controls
the amount of voltage that is let into the
Arduino board. Think of it as a kind of
gatekeeper; it will turn away an extra voltage
that might harm the circuit. Of course, it has its
limits, so don’t hook up your Arduino to
anything greater than 20 volts.

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