Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and on-board input/output support. The software consists of a standard programming language compiler and the boot loader that runs on the board.

Arduino hardware is programmed using a Wiring-based language (syntax and libraries), similar to C/C++ with some slight simplifications and modifications, and a Processing-based integrated development environment.

In addition to Arduino’s simplicity, it is also inexpensive, cross-platform and open source. The Arduino is based on mostly Atmel’s ATMEGA328 and ATMEGA168 microcontrollers.

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Arduino is an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a microcontroller) and a piece of software, or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.

The Arduino platform has become quite popular with people just starting out with electronics, and for good reason. Unlike most previous programmable circuit boards, the Arduino does not need a separate piece of hardware (called a programmer) in order to load new code onto the board – you can simply use a USB cable. Additionally, the Arduino IDE uses a simplified version of C++, making it easier to learn to program. Finally, Arduino provides a standard form factor that breaks out the functions of the micro-controller into a more accessible package.
The Uno is one of the more popular boards in the Arduino family and a great choice for beginners.

What An Arduino Does it Do?
The Arduino hardware and software was designed for Students, Engineers, Physicists, Computer Scientists and Engineers, designers, hobbyists, hackers, newbies, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can interact with buttons, LEDs, Motors(DC motors, Servos and Steppers), actuators, speakers, GPS units, cameras, the internet, and even your smart-phone or your TV! [/b]This flexibility combined with the fact that the Arduino software is free, the hardware boards are pretty cheap, and both the software and hardware are easy to learn has led to a large community of users who have contributed code and released instructions for a huge variety of Arduino-based projects.

For everything from [b]Home-help Robots, Dispenser, and warming blanket to honest fortune-telling machines, and even a Weather Stations and Radar systems, the Arduino can be used as the brains behind almost any electronics project.

And that’s really just the tip of the iceberg – if you’re curious about where to find more examples of Arduino projects in action, here are some good resources for Arduino-based projects to get your creative juices flowing:
1. Instructables
2. Bildr
3. Arduino Playground
4. The ITP Physical Computing Wiki
5. LadyAda
6. Make: Projects
and, of course, you can find plenty more Arduino tutorials here at arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction

What is on an Arduino Uno Board?

There are many varieties of Arduino boards that can be used for different purposes. Some boards look a bit different from the one below, but most Arduinos have the majority of these components in common:

Power (USB / Barrel Jack)

Every Arduino board needs a way to be connected to a power source. The Arduino UNO can be powered from a USB cable coming from your computer or a wall power supply that is terminated in a barrel jack. In the picture below the USB connection is labeled (1) and the barrel jack is labeled (2).
The USB connection is also how you will load code onto your Arduino board.

NOTE: Do NOT use a power supply greater than 20 Volts as you will overpower (and thereby destroy) your Arduino. The recommended voltage for most Arduino models is between 5 and 12 Volts.

Pins (5V, 3.3V, GND, Analog, Digital, PWM, AREF)

The pins on your Arduino are the places where you connect wires to construct a circuit (probably in conjuction with a breadboard and some wire. They usually have black plastic ‘headers’ that allow you to just plug a wire right into the board. The Arduino has several different kinds of pins, each of which is labeled on the board and used for different functions.

GND (3): Short for ‘Ground’. There are several GND pins on the Arduino, any of which can be used to ground your circuit.
5V (4) & 3.3V (5): As you might guess, the 5V pin supplies 5 volts of power, and the 3.3V pin supplies 3.3 volts of power. Most of the simple components used with the Arduino run happily off of 5 or 3.3 volts.
Analog (6): The area of pins under the ‘Analog In’ label (A0 through A5 on the UNO) are Analog In pins. These pins can read the signal from an analog sensor (like a temperature sensor) and convert it into a digital value that we can read.
Digital (7): Across from the analog pins are the digital pins (0 through 13 on the UNO). These pins can be used for both digital input (like telling if a button is pushed) and digital output (like powering an LED).
PWM (8}: You may have noticed the tilde (~) next to some of the digital pins (3, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11 on the UNO). These pins act as normal digital pins, but can also be used for something called Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM). We have a tutorial on PWM, but for now, think of these pins as being able to simulate analog output (like fading an LED in and out).
AREF (9): Stands for Analog Reference. Most of the time you can leave this pin alone. It is sometimes used to set an external reference voltage (between 0 and 5 Volts) as the upper limit for the analog input pins.

Reset Button

Just like the original Nintendo, the Arduino has a reset button (10). Pushing it will temporarily connect the reset pin to ground and restart any code that is loaded on the Arduino. This can be very useful if your code doesn’t repeat, but you want to test it multiple times.

Power LED Indicator

Just beneath and to the right of the word “UNO” on your circuit board, there’s a tiny LED next to the word ‘ON’ (11). This LED should light up whenever you plug your Arduino into a power source. If this light doesn’t turn on, there’s a good chance something is wrong. Time to re-check your circuit!

TX RX LEDs

TX is short for transmit, RX is short for receive. These markings appear quite a bit in electronics to indicate the pins responsible for serial communication. In our case, there are two places on the Arduino UNO where TX and RX appear – once by digital pins 0 and 1, and a second time next to the TX and RX indicator LEDs (12). These LEDs will give us some nice visual indications whenever our Arduino is receiving or transmitting data (like when we’re loading a new program onto the board).

Main IC

The black thing with all the metal legs is an IC, or Integrated Circuit (13). Think of it as the brains of our Arduino. The main IC on the Arduino is slightly different from board type to board type, but is usually from the ATmega line of IC’s from the ATMEL company. This can be important, as you may need to know the IC type (along with your board type) before loading up a new program from the Arduino software. This information can usually be found in writing on the top side of the IC. If you want to know more about the difference between various IC’s, reading the datasheets is often a good idea.

Voltage Regulator

The voltage regulator (14) is not actually something you can (or should) interact with on the Arduino. But it is potentially useful to know that it is there and what it’s for. The voltage regulator does exactly what it says – it controls the amount of voltage that is let into the Arduino board. Think of it as a kind of gatekeeper; it will turn away an extra voltage that might harm the circuit. Of course, it has its limits, so don’t hook up your Arduino to anything greater than 20 volts.

The Arduino Family

Arduino makes several different boards, each with different capabilities. In addition, part of being open source hardware means that others can modify and produce derivatives of Arduino boards that provide even more form factors and functionality.

Arduino Uno (R3)

The Uno is a great choice for your first Arduino. It’s got everything you need to get started, and nothing you don’t. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a USB connection, a power jack, a reset button and more. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started

Sensors
With some simple code, the Arduino can control and interact with a wide variety of sensors - things that can measure light, temperature, degree of flex, pressure, proximity, acceleration, carbon monoxide, radioactivity, humidity, barometric pressure, Camera, LDRs, you name it, you can sense it!

Shields

Additionally, there are these things called shields – basically they are pre-built circuit boards that fit on top of your Arduino and provide additional capabilities – controlling motors, connecting to the internet, providing cellular or other wireless communication, controlling an LCD screen, and much more.

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We having been receiving calls from clients most especially from 300 and 400 Level students of Faculties of Engineering and Natural Sciences in various higher institutions across the nation asking us for software to use to enable them come up with professional and "wowing" Arduino Projects...
We recommend the following:

1. Arduino IDE {Native Arduino IDE}
2. Processing IDE {Enables graphic manipulations of Arduino Serial Data}
3. Atmel Studio 6.5 + Visual Micro Addon {I personally prefer this Combo than the Native Arduino IDE because it offers syntax highlighting, syntax suggestion/guessing and easy debugging}
4. Python 2.7 Series + PySerial 2.7 + Vpython {Enables Arduino communication (using Serial Data)with 3D Displays and Animation on Virtual Worlds}
5. Fritzing {Create clean and professional images of all your Arduino and other Electronics Circuit Projects, you can even start the development of your Circuit on PCB from here!}
These Software and Libraries are open source and available for free downloads on the internet

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arduino:
We having been receiving calls from clients most especially from 300 and 400 Level students of Faculties of Engineering and Natural Sciences in various higher institutions across the nation asking us for software to use to enable them come up with professional and "wowing" Arduino Projects...
We recommend the following:

1. Arduino IDE {Native Arduino IDE}
2. Processing IDE {Enables graphic manipulations of Arduino Serial Data}
3. Atmel Studio 6.5 + Visual Micro Addon {I personally prefer this Combo than the Native Arduino IDE because it offers syntax highlighting, syntax suggestion/guessing and easy debugging}
4. Python 2.7 Series + PySerial 2.7 + Vpython {Enables Arduino communication (using Serial Data)with 3D Displays and Animation on Virtual Worlds}
5. Fritzing {Create clean and professional images of all your Arduino and other Electronics Circuit Projects, you can even start the development of your Circuit on PCB from here!}
These Software and Libraries are open source and available for free downloads on the internet

I think that does it for this session....

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Mr. Arduino, Thank you oooo. Got all my orders with free male-male and male-Female jumper cables.
I Recommend this guy.

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pls where is your office based and your price on konja are high, beside is it possible for one to request for a component which are not available on konga, how do one go about that?

asalufu89:
pls where is your office based and your price on konja are high, beside is it possible for one to request for a component which are not available on konga, how do one go about that?

Firstly our office is Headquartered in Jos, Plateau State. We sell and Ship nationwide(free shipping only to clients around Jos and parts of Bauchi).
Secondly, our products are the cheapest on most Nigerian online stores and that is because we want every Arduino hobbyist to have these components at pocket friendly prices. But also know that our prices are tied to FOREX fluctuations.
Thirdly we offer offline sales too. Just place a call or shoot us a PM/email and we will gladly take it up from there.

We appreciate you all especially post-graduates, graduates, undergraduates, professionals and other Automation hobbyist in our dear country ordering from our store. We also specially recognize clients in various institutions( Plateau Polytechnic, Unijos, UniAbuja, Nasarawa State Universty, ABU, BAYARO University, ATBU and Bauchi Poly) in and around our host community.
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arduino:
We appreciate you all especially post-graduates, graduates, undergraduates, professionals and other Automation hobbyist in our dear country ordering from our store. We also specially recognize clients in various institutions( Plateau Polytechnic, Unijos, UniAbuja, Nasarawa State Universty, ABU, BAYARO University, ATBU and Bauchi Poly) in and around our host community.
Thank you.

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arduino:
We having been receiving calls from clients most especially from 300 and 400 Level students of Faculties of Engineering and Natural Sciences in various higher institutions across the nation asking us for software to use to enable them come up with professional and "wowing" Arduino Projects...
We recommend the following:

1. Arduino IDE {Native Arduino IDE}
2. Processing IDE {Enables graphic manipulations of Arduino Serial Data}
3. Atmel Studio 6.5 + Visual Micro Addon {I personally prefer this Combo than the Native Arduino IDE because it offers syntax highlighting, syntax suggestion/guessing and easy debugging}
4. Python 2.7 Series + PySerial 2.7 + Vpython {Enables Arduino communication (using Serial Data)with 3D Displays and Animation on Virtual Worlds}
5. Fritzing {Create clean and professional images of all your Arduino and other Electronics Circuit Projects, you can even start the development of your Circuit on PCB from here!}
These Software and Libraries are open source and available for free downloads on the internet

I think that does it for this session....

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Good news to all our esteemed client and other electronics automation enthusiast. In our efforts to always ensure regular customer support services and fun with your next Arduino Projects, our team of researchers have discovered on online a Simulation Platform that can help you Simulate your Arduino project on your PC without necessarily having the physical hardware.
Steps:
1. Download and install Proteus version 7 or 8, we have only tested on Proteus version 7
2. Request for the available Libraries(so far we have the following supported libraries (Arduino Boards, DS1307, GPS, GSM, Bluetooth Module, PIR Sensor and Ultrasonic) via email free of charge(FOC) or search and download off the net.
3. Install Libraries
4. Sketch your code on Arduino IDE
5. Convert the sketch in step4 to HEX file because Proteus does not accept .ino file
6. Design your arduino virtual circuit on Proteus and Upload HEX file
7. Run and watch your virtual project come to life.
8. Having any difficulty with the above steps, comment on this thread for help.
Fair enough....Have a lovely day.

Video presentation please?

SupremeDimeji:
Video presentation please?

That will come when we get our Ntel SIM Card with free unlimited data......lol

arduino:

That will come when we get our Ntel SIM Card with free unlimited data......lol

Lol, can I get that in Bauchi or jos?

SupremeDimeji:


Lol, can I get that in Bauchi or jos?

Sure.... Our store is "headquartered" in Jos.

SupremeDimeji:
Video presentation please?

I installed arduino library in Proteus 8 but it kept crashing each time I ran simulations. Did a bot of research and found out it was because I was using a cracked version of Proteus. Are there any better alternatives? I already have fritzing installed for prototype designing bit not simulations.

bot101:

I installed arduino library in Proteus 8 but it kept crashing each time I ran simulations. Did a bot of research and found out it was because I was using a cracked version of Proteus. Are there any better alternatives? I already have fritzing installed for prototype designing bit not simulations.

Use Demo version. Only difference is that you will not be able to save your design files.

arduino:

Use Demo version. Only difference is that you will not be able to save your design files.

thanks

bot101:
thanks

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Do you have any module that allows video streaming via Wi-Fi for arduino?