1.1.  WHAT IS ARDUINO?

Arduino is a microcontroller platform, which is based on open-source thinking. It uses free hardware and software, which is easy to use, and it is suitable to electronic designers and hobby workers.

You can sensing and control your environment connecting to Arduino a big variety of sensors and actuators like LEDs, Motors… You can programme the board with “Arduino Programming Language” based on processing.

Arduino is a good choose to teachers and students because it offers some advantages:

·         Simple: Arduino catches the chaos of the microcontrollers programming and orders it into tools like libraries. Furthermore, Arduino has a big community of users that produces material and have feedbacks between them.

·         Simple programming environment: It is simple to use for beginners but is suitable to advance users.

·         Multiplatform: Arduino software can be executed on windows, Macintosh OSX and Linux.

·         Open hardware and software: You can download and modify the software and hardware because they are published under creative commons license.