Arduino
More info
- Creator
- Massimo Banzi et al.
- Released
- Origin
- Ivrea, Italy
- Type
- Microcontroller platform
- License
- Hardware: CC-BY-SA, IDE: LGPL/GPL
- Website
- arduino.cc
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Italian open-source MCU platform — made hardware hobbyism mainstream in the 2000s.
Classic Arduino Uno: ATmega328P, 16 MHz, 32 KB of flash. Simplified C dialect with setup() + loop(). Massive ecosystem of "shields" (add-on boards) and libraries. Modern official models now build on ARM Cortex-M and even ESP32 / RISC-V. Competition / complements: Raspberry Pi Pico, ESP32, Teensy.