| Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o |
| board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring |
| language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or |
| can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). |
| The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source |
| IDE can be downloaded for free. |
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| For more information, see the website at: http://www.arduino.cc/ |
| or the forums at: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl |
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| To report a bug or a make a suggestions, go to: |
| [hardware] http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=hwbugs |
| [software] http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=swbugs |
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| INSTALLATION |
| Detailed instructions are in reference/Guide_Windows.html and |
| reference/Guide_MacOSX.html. For Linux, see the Arduino playground: |
| http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux |
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| If you are using a USB Arduino, you will need to install the drivers for the |
| FTDI chip on the board. These can be found in the drivers/ directory. |
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| * On Windows, plug in the Arduino board and point the Windows Add Hardware |
| wizard to the drivers/FTDI USB Drivers sub-directory of the Arduino |
| application directory. |
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| * On the Mac, install the FTDIUSBSerialDriver_10_4_10_5_10_6.mpkg package. |
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| * On Linux, drivers are included in kernel versions 2.4.20 or greater. |
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| CREDITS |
| Arduino is an open source project, supported by many. |
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| The Arduino team is composed of Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, |
| Gianluca Martino, and David A. Mellis. |
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| Arduino uses the GNU avr-gcc toolchain, avrdude, avr-libc, and code from |
| Processing and Wiring. |
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| Icon designed by ToDo: http://www.todo.to.it/ |
| "About" image created by Thomas Glaser (envis precisely). |
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