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 (like this) that is terminated in a barrel jack. In the picture above the USB connection is labeled(1)and the barrel ja...
Besides the main microcontroller chip, a microcontroller will require many different parts to work. What Arduino did was take away all the essential components of a microcontroller and design it so that it is effortless to operate on a piece of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) — making it very we...
Arduino is a board with amicrocontrollerthat can easily be programmed from the Arduino IDE. Amicrocontrolleris a small chip with several input and output pins. You can write code, for example, to set an output to be HIGH or LOW. And if you connect aLight-Emitting Diode (LED)to that outp...
TIP: Use 115200Baud in your program for quick Serial print!Actually you can go far faster - my older 3dprinter uses 250000Baud (0.25MBaud) (using an Arduino Mega3260 as the Arduino processor chip - and it never had communications problems). That's a bit period of 4us! - so 10 bits...
I am attempting to stream data from Arduino UNO. The com port is detected (com 5), but it gives me an error "Unable to connect to the device because it is already in use. Make sure it is not being used by another application...". I am only having it run on the serial monitor....
1. Key difference in both of them is presence of external peripheral, where microcontrollers have RAM, ROM, EEPROM embedded in it while we have to use external circuits in the case of microprocessors. 2. As all the peripheral of microcontroller are on single chip it is compact while microproc...
Arduino is a term used loosely to describe several things (depending on the context): it's a company, open source hardware, open source software/middleware and a community, not just the hardware. You can indeed buy hardware kits from Arduino (Arduino UNO, Zero,...), but you can also pu...
Due to very large scale and ultra large scale integration technology, a microprocessor is fabricated in a very less footprint. This will reduce the size of the entire computer system. Versatile Microprocessors are very versatile, the same chip can be used for a number of applications by simply...
So instead of dealing with single microcontroller unit and debugging and maintaining hardware in the chip level, you can now have more compact kits ready for more complicated needs. However the kit that truely revolutionized Embedded Kits and given a wing to DIY guys was Arduino. Though in this...
What projects have you done? I've used a standard Arduino Uno. I'm just getting started, so I've only done the basics including messing with LEDs and timings. I'm looking forward to getting more complex projects going soon! Have you given out your reputation points today? Select the ...