What is Arduino? - Open Source Hardware Company

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1. What is Arduino?

Arduino is an open-source hardware and software and platform development company which design, develop, manufactures, and distribute hardware products and software products to their users. More or less the product line of the Arduino has primarily based n single-board micro-controller devices.

Arduino is used mostly for DIY projects, research projects, and test purposes and on production-level applications too. Due to the low price and features like plug and play for other modules for the main development Arduino development boards, Arduino as a brand is extremely popular.

2. History

Arduino was a project started by Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy. Because the BASIC Stamp microcontroller cost US$50 which was expensive for many students, Hernando Barragan created a development platform wiring as a master's thesis project in 2003 under the supervision of Massimo Banzi and Casey Reas. The project ended up with a PCB and an ATmega 168 embedded into it. The project was named as Arduino.