What Is an Arduino?
The best part about the Arduino prototyping platform is that it's whatever you want it to be. The Arduino could be an automatic plant-watering control system. It could be a web server. It could even be a quadcopter autopilot.
The Arduino is a microcontroller development platform paired with an intuitive programming language that you develop using the Arduino integrated development environment. By equipping the Arduino with sensors, actuators, lights, speakers, add-on modules (called shields), and other integrated circuits, you can turn the Arduino into a programmable “brain” for just about any control system.
It's impossible to cover everything that the Arduino is capable of, because the possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Hence, this book serves as a guide to get you acquainted with the Arduino's functionality by executing several projects that will give you the skills you need to develop your own projects.
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