Arduino Day 2021
Well, if you are an engineer or in any way related to the electronics field you must have come across the word ‘Arduino’. So what exactly is Arduino?
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board and a piece of software used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.
‘Arduino boards’ are able to read inputs, like light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a message, and turn it into an output, like activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do.
The Arduino platform has become quite popular with people just starting out with electronics, and for good reason. Unlike most programmable circuit boards, the Arduino does not need a separate piece of hardware in order to load new code onto the board, you can simply use a USB cable. Additionally, the Arduino IDE(integrated development environment), the software, 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.
Now let’s talk about Arduino Day!
Arduino Day is a worldwide 24-hour-long birthday celebration of Arduino — organized directly by the community, or by the Arduino team, this year marking its 16th birthday!
Arduino day 2021 is scheduled on 27th March and is titled ‘Undistancing: Open Makes Us Close’ keeping the COVID-19 scenario in mind.
UNDISTANCING conveys the disruptive power of Arduino users to unite in a time when it’s needed more than ever.
OPEN MAKES US CLOSE represents the ability of our community to transform a burden into a chance to connect, collaborate, and create as one. It’s a call to shorten as many distances as possible and to explore new ideas and technologies, together.
It aims to break down the barriers of physical distances and self-isolation, to uphold the power of the open source community to shorten any physical distance through new opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and get (virtually) closer.
Arduino Day is open to anyone who wants to celebrate the amazing things that have been done (or can be done!) with the open-source platform.
Anyone and everyone can participate/ attend an event or organise one.
There will be talks, demos, talks, presentations, interviews and many more.
Each year more than 3000 participants join from across the world to make it a grand success.
This year, the Arduino community hosted a special challenge for Arduino Day 2021. The challenge required participants to send in a video of their most creative, simple and fun projects. The best projects would get featured in the official Arduino Day 2021 celebration. Moreover, the winning participants would get exciting hardware from Arduino!
To catch the official stream of Arduino Day 2021 click here, you don’t want to miss it!
History of Arduino
The Arduino project began in 2005 at the Ivrea Interaction Design Institute, Italy as an easy tool for fast prototyping, aimed at students without a background in electronics and programming. As soon as it reached a wider community, the Arduino board started changing to adapt to new needs and challenges, differentiating its offer from simple 8-bit boards to products for IoT applications, wearable, 3D printing, and embedded environments. All Arduino boards are completely open-source, empowering users to build them independently and eventually adapt them to their particular needs. The software, too, is open-source, and it is growing through the contributions of users worldwide.
The name Arduino comes from a bar in Ivrea, Italy, where some of the founders of the project used to meet. Funny, right!
This is the Arduino Uno and it is one of the more popular boards in the Arduino family and a great choice for beginners. Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P. The Uno board is the first in a series of USB Arduino boards, and the reference model for the Arduino platform
Arduino is prominently used in smart homes, defence, aerospace, data mining, medicine, body control and many other fields.
Arduino is not going to become unpopular anytime soon and though the pandemic has made us feel further apart, Arduino has brought us a bit closer.
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