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> The Arduino is a family of microcontrollers built from the ground up to be easy to use. Easy to use software, easy to program (Variant of C) - and more import
by RealityVoid 11y ago
> The Arduino is a family of microcontrollers built from the ground up to be easy to use. Easy to use software, easy to program (Variant of C) - and more importantly, heaps of support and tutorials online.
The Arduino is _not_ a familiy of microcontrollers, it's a family of dev boards (well, more like an ecosystem) and most Arduinos are based on AVR microcontrollers (but not all of them as far as I remember).
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- 13of40 11y agoI'd argue that Arduino isn't even fundamentally a hardware thing. I can code an Arduino application (sketch) and upload it directly to an Atmel chip on a breadboard, with no other components present at run-time. Atmel didn't make the chip as an Arduino (they made it to control toaster ovens or whatever), so in that scenario there's no Arduino except for their boot loader and runtime library.