ARDUINO

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can communicate with software running 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.

The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment.

In this workshop we had a chance to use Arduino, using the program “Processing” which is a free software that has all the codes to control how I want the machine to work. In this workshop we followed some briefs and made the LED light switch on by entering some HTML coding in Processing.

The components we used with Arduino:

::LEDs
::Resistors
::Wire
::Breadboard
::Arduino Board