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What can an Arduino development board be used for?

Arduino development boards can be used to do many cool things. You can easily add an LCD display, keyboard, or seven-segment display module and quickly build a simple system. A wealth of information and libraries are available on the Arduino.cc website. You can design your own electronic plug-ins or use shielding to build modular systems. Due to its versatility, Arduino can be used for simple, mundane tasks or complex applications. A simple example is the ability to turn on a device when the indoor temperature drops below a certain level. Expanding this application by adding a GSM module can be easy, allowing it to send a text message when this occurs. Arduino development boards can be used to implement complex home automation systems that can be controlled via a smartphone . Enthusiasts also use them as handling and control devices in robots, and kits are available for building simple wheeled robots.

Micontroller Project – Programming an Arduino Development Board

The Arduino board is programmed in C and provides advanced functionality as standard for reading and writing to analog and digital pins and the serial port. The source code is referred to as a “sketch”. The standard library can also be used for tasks such as outputting to an LCD panel or communicating with a GSM module. Enthusiasts have also contributed many other libraries and code, which can be found on the Arduino website.

The Arduino website provides a basic code editor/compiler for program development. However, this editor is essentially like a wordpad, offering no color-coded highlighting or sophisticated debugging features. Atmel Studio, a simplified and customized version of Visual Studio, offers an alternative that provides these functionalities.