Introduction To Arduino Uno (The Easy Way)

Seeing the enthusiasm between the young generation for the love of hardware and getting hands on experience with it, I am briefing here about how to get started and develop things on your own.

Introduction

An Arduino is an open-source microcontroller development board. In plain English, you can use the Arduino to read sensors and control things like motors and lights. This allows you to upload programs to this board which can then interact with things in the real world. With this, you can make devices which respond and react to the world at large.

For instance, you can read a humidity sensor connected to a potted plant and turn on an automatic watering system if it gets too dry. Or, you can make a stand-alone chat server which is plugged into your internet router. Or, you can have it tweet every time your cat passes through a pet door. Or, you can have it start a pot of coffee when your alarm goes off in the morning.

Basically, if there is something that is in any way controlled by electricity, the Arduino can interface with it in some manner. And even if it is not controlled by electricity, you can probably still use things which are (like motors and electromagnets), to interface with it.

The possibilities of the Arduino are almost limitless. As such, there is no way that one single tutorial can cover everything you might ever need to know. That said, I've done my best to give a basic overview of the fundamental skills and knowledge that you need to get your Arduino up and running. If nothing more, this should function as a springboard into further experimentation and learning.

About Uno

Uno is the most used and loved hardware board in the Arduino maker community. Small, compact, cheap, it is just what you need to make a wonderful project. Even if you don't know the internal functioning it's fine because Arduino was made just for that.

Here is a link to get yourself going with Uno:

Where do I buy one

• It's available on Arduino's official website or on any e-commerce site

• You can also find it in a store near you

Now, how to program your Arduino to get things as you want

All you need is a Arduino IDE (software for Arduino). Here's the link and it's free. Here's a tutorial to install it:

Once you have installed all you need is an idea to make most of it but before that make sure that you get hands on experience on some other projects that are available online.

Try with the basic ones:

All the components that you need for your project are easily available in a nearby store. So get yourself going and and make something cool.

Best of Luck!