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INTRODUCTION TO DUINO:
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform, designed to make the process of using
electronics in multidisciplinary projects easily accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware
design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and on-board I/O support. The software consists
of a standard programming language and the boot loader that runs on the board.
Arduino hardware is programmed using a Wiring-based language ( libraries), similar to C++ with
some simplifications and modifications, and a Processing-based Integrated Development Environment
(IDE). The project began in Ivrea, Italy in 2005 aiming to make a device for controlling student-built
interaction design projects less expensively than other prototyping systems available at the time. As of
February 2010 more than 120,000 Arduino boards had been shipped. Founders Massimo Banzi and David
Cuartielles named the project after a local bar named “Arduino”. The name is an Italian masculine first
name, meaning "strong friend". The English pronunciation is "Hardwin", a namesake of Arduino of Ivrea.
More information could be found at the creators web page http://arduino.cc/ and in the Arduino Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
To make the story short – Arduino is easy for beginners who lack Electronics knowledge, but also does not
restrict professionals as they can program it in C++ or mix of Arduino/C++ language. There are thousands of
projects which makes it easy to startup as there is barely no field where Arduino enthusiasts to have not
been already.
Arduino has inspired two other major derivatives – MAPLE and PINGUINO. Based on 8-bit AVR technology
the computational power of Arduino boards is modest, this is why a team from MIT developed the MAPLE
project which is based on ARM7 STM32F103RBT6 microcontroller. The board has same friendly IDE as
Arduino and offers the same capabilities as hardware and software but runs the Arduino code much faster.
Unfortunately, by year 2016, the MAPLE project is now no longer supported and updated. The remaining
resources of the Maple project can be found at
http://leaflabs.com
In parallel with Arduino another project was started called PINGUINO. This project chose its first imple-
mentation to be with PIC microcontrollers, as AVRs were hard to find in some parts of the world like South
America so it is likely to see lot of PINGUINO developers are from that part of the world. PINGUINO
project founders decided to go with Python instead Java for processing language. For the moment PIN-
GUINO is much more flexible than Arduino as it is not limited to 8bit microcontrollers. Currently the IDE,
which has GCC in background, can support 8-bit PIC microcontrollers, 32bit PIC32 (MIPS) microcontrollers
and ARM7/CORTEXM3 microcontrollers which makes PINGUINO very flexible because once you make
your project you can migrate easily through different hardware platforms and not being bound to a single
microcontroller manufacturer. The PINGUINO project can be found at:
http://www.pinguino.cc .
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