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Arduino Programming

An Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based around an easy-to-use microcontroller board. It can measure inputs like light levels and control outputs like LEDs in response. Digital inputs and outputs are binary true/false states, while analog inputs and outputs can take on a continuous range of values. The Arduino uses principles of electricity like voltage, current, resistance, and Ohm's law to power electronics and process inputs and outputs.

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Arduino Programming

An Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based around an easy-to-use microcontroller board. It can measure inputs like light levels and control outputs like LEDs in response. Digital inputs and outputs are binary true/false states, while analog inputs and outputs can take on a continuous range of values. The Arduino uses principles of electricity like voltage, current, resistance, and Ohm's law to power electronics and process inputs and outputs.

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Computer Science

What is an Arduino?
Inputs and outputs can be digital or analog. Digital
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform. information is binary‐ it is either true or false. Analog
information is continuous, it can hold a range of values.
What does that mean?
. Digital information is discrete and finite. all
information is described in two states, 1 or 0, on or
Open source off.
{ “Resources that can used, redistributed or rewritten free of change
often software or hardware” . Analog information is characterized by its
Electronics continuous nature. it can have an infinite number of
{ “Technology which makes use of the controlled motion of electrons
possible values.
through different media”
c A switch is a digital input, a sensor is an
Prototype analog input. the range of an analog sensor is
{ “An original form that can serve as a basis or standard for other
things”
limited by its conversion to digital data.

Platform What is Voltage? Current? Resistance?


{ “Hardware architecture with software framework on which other
software can run” Ohm’s Law?
! Before we plug in the Arduino, we will review a
few terms and principles that have to do with how
electricity (and therefore electronics) works.

Voltage
{ is a measure of electrical potential. It is measured in volts
Current
{ is the amount of flow through a conductive material. It is measured
in amperes or Amps

Arduino Board Resistance


{ is a material's opposition to the flow of electric current. It is
An Arduino is an Microchip, which is very small computer measured in ohms.

that you can program to respond to things. It can measure


Electricity is the flow of energy through a conductive
conditions (like how much light there is in the room). It can material.
control how other objects react to those conditions (room
gets dark and an led turns on).
V V
What is a Microcontroller?
Microcontrollers use inputs and outputs Like any computer.
I R I R
Inputs capture information From the user or the environment
while Outputs do something with the information that has
V
been captured.

A switch or A sensor could be I R


An input into the Arduino.

There is a relationship between voltage, current and


resistance, discovered by Georg Ohm, a German
Any object we want
to turn on and off
and control could be
An output. It could
be a motor or even a
computer.

What’s the difference between digital and


analog inputs and outputs?

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