21 Facts About Arduino

Arduino is an open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices.

Arduino boards are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors.

Arduino project began in 2005 as a tool for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, aiming to provide a low-cost and easy way for novices and professionals to create devices that interact with their environment using sensors and actuators.

Name Arduino comes from a bar in Ivrea, Italy, where some of the founders of the project used to meet.

Arduino project was started at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy.

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The founding bylaws of Arduino LLC specified that each of the five founders transfer ownership of the Arduino brand to the newly formed company.

In May 2015, Arduino LLC created the worldwide trademark Genuino, used as brand name outside the United States.

Arduino intends to continue to work with all technology vendors and architectures.

In February 2019, Arduino announced its IoT Cloud service as an extension of the Create online environment.

The official policy document on use of the Arduino name emphasizes that the project is open to incorporating work by others into the official product.

The 32-bit Arduino Due, based on the Atmel SAM3X8E was introduced in 2012.

Arduino microcontrollers are pre-programmed with a boot loader that simplifies uploading of programs to the on-chip flash memory.

Some serial Arduino boards contain a level shifter circuit to convert between RS-232 logic levels and transistor–transistor logic level signals.

Current Arduino boards are programmed via Universal Serial Bus, implemented using USB-to-serial adapter chips such as the FTDI FT232.

Many enhance the basic Arduino by adding output drivers, often for use in school-level education, to simplify making buggies and small robots.

Original Arduino hardware was manufactured by the Italian company Smart Projects.

Some Arduino-branded boards have been designed by the American companies SparkFun Electronics and Adafruit Industries.

Arduino integrated development environment is a cross-platform application that is written in the Java programming language.

The Arduino IDE employs the program avrdude to convert the executable code into a text file in hexadecimal encoding that is loaded into the Arduino board by a loader program in the board's firmware.

Open-source nature of the Arduino project has facilitated the publication of many free software libraries that other developers use to augment their projects.

Arduino project received an honorary mention in the Digital Communities category at the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica.