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| Arduino and List of Arduino Boards Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:19 PM PDT Arduino is an open source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It is a single board microcontroller intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environment. A microcontroller (sometimes abbreviated as µC, uC, or MCU) is an integrated circuit contain a processor core, memory, and programmable input/output peripherals. One can program microcontroller for various purpose especially for control machinery, for example: robotics, automobile engine control systems, remote controls, toys, and other embedded systems. In short, microcontroller is similar to our brain, controlling input, process, and output of electronic device. This behavior similar to computer, however microcontroller already have memory, timer, and storage for store executable program. A microcontroller can’t be used directly. It is a IC chip and we can’t use it immediately, which means we have to supply a minimum system to run it. That is analogically same with processor and motherboard. Fortunately, Arduino has provide all we need to utilize a microcontroller. Arduino has wrapped all the complicated things and provide us with nice programmable board without us to do extra work to create a system minimum. The BoardsWhen we talk about Arduino, we are actually talking about Arduino family. There are some boards released by Arduino, designed using either Atmel AVR processor and ARM-based processor. The main differences between those boards are the:
An Arduino board is basically a single board with appropriate system and components enough to power and run a microcontroller. One Arduino product (Arduino board) might differs in some aspects when compared to another Arduino product. Arduino boards use megaAVR series of chips, specifically the ATmega8, ATmega 328, ATmega 1280, and ATmega 2560; and also ARM Cortex chips. The boards include a 5 volt linear regulator. We can power Arduino board from power connector or from USB connector when we program it. Most of Arduino products include 16MHz crystal oscillator (or ceramic resonator in some variants). Although some designes such as the LilyPad run at 8 MHz. As stated before, Arduino is an open-source. Arduino exposed the schematics for all of their products, open to everyone. Anyone who interested can make their own arduino board. However, Arduino restricts that no one should use Arduino brand name for third party maker. That means, any company who create the Arduino clone cannot use Arduino name. The ShieldsShields are printed circuit expansion boards that plug into the normally supplied Arduino pin-headers. Shields can provide motor controls, GPS, ethernet, LCD display, or any function specific to that shield. These peripherals are sold separately and can also be made by ourselves. Programming in ArduinoMicrocontroller is programmable, so does Arduino board which use microcontroller to run its awesomeness. Arduino has official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in use of programming for Arduino. The IDE is a cross-platform application written in Java and derived from the IDE for the Processing programming language and Wiring projects. It is designed to introduce programming to artists and other newcomers unfamiliar with software development. There are also alternative to Arduino IDE which you can see from this list. Arduino programs are written in C or C++, however the structure is simplified. Arduino use software library called Wiring from original Wiring project which makes many common input/output operations much easier. We at minimum only need to define two function to make a runnable cyclic executive program:
An example for simple source code (also called as “sketch”) which will blinks a LED on and off: const unsigned int LED_PIN = 13; void setup() { pinMode (LED_PIN, OUTPUT); // Enable pin 13 for digital output } void loop() { digitalWrite(LED_PIN, HIGH); // Turn on the LED delay(1000); // Wait 1 second or 1000 miliseconds digitalWrite(LED_PIN, LOW); // Turn off the LED delay(1000); // Wait 1 second } The programs compiled or created are in binary format which executable by the microcontroller. However this binary program is different with binary program in our computer. These programs use the different format, the mnemonic used by microcontroller. The last step in programming Arduino is “upload” the program to Arduino. In common practice, uploading a program to microcontroller need external device called “programmer”. The fancy thing is, Arduino needs no external programmer. It has built component in board which allow our ordinary computer as programmer. List of BoardsArduino release numbers of board. This list might not be up to date. Please refer this page for more accurate Arduino product.
For quick comparison:
We might cover some Arduino models. To get start, you can check following models:
For my series of tutorials unless told otherwise, I will use Arduino Uno and sometime Arduino Mega. Reference
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