An Arduino is a microcontroller — a single board designed to control something and perform a specific task. Unlike a Raspberry Pi, you won't find anything resembling an operating system here ...

The Uno Rev3 is also the most popular Arduino board, so expect to see tutorials and project guides available online. Because of its widespread popularity, most online circuit builders like ...

Using FTDI programmer: Now I will address one of the issues of making your own Arduino. On the Uno boards, there’s an IC which is responsible as a USB to serial converter and it makes it possible to ...

A circuit board for the masses: the Arduino microcontroller. Photo: James Day Check this out,” Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a ...

Remove the chip and insert it into your circuit board’s IC socket Ready, Set and GO! Note: Pin D9 on the Arduino is not the same pin 9 on the ATmega328 IC. Pin 15 on the IC is actually the pin for ...

The phone is powered by an Arduino GSM Shield circuit board, pictured. Arduino is an open-source platform which comes with a circuit board, and software that tells people how program it.

This little circuit board is at the heart of many DIY projects, from robotics to art projects and just about everything in between. But what on Earth is Arduino, anyway? What makes it so versatile?