| Date Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
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An Arduino / Freeduino Board from DeccanRobots
Article By Pratik Deshpande
Founder and Chief Mentor at DeccanRobots
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It took a longer time than expected to come up with Arduino compatible product range.
Arduino Freeduino Product Page at EmbeddedMarket.com
We were waiting for the market for Arduino in India to pickup. And found this time as the best to launch the Arduino series.
For those who are new to the word Arduino, here my simple lines to read:
It is open source (all development files and source codes are open for public) physical computing platform.
It's specifications and open source details are available at arduino.cc
In simple words, it is combination of Hardware board and the open source Software.
The Hardware is based on ATMEL's AVR Microcontroller. This microcontroller has a boot-loader (a small operating system in simple language) and makes the programming easy and fun.
It is suitable for kids, engineers, experts and retired kids!!!
It is new way to learn the exciting world of embedded technology .
In any embedded processor, a piece of software runs inside the microcontroller. This software is developed on a PC and later downloaded to a microcontroller using device called as the "Programmer".
This platform provides free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which is compatible with PC running on Windows or Linux.
Use Arduino Software to write simple embedded applications. The Applications are written using C Like language.
IDE has integrated "C Compiler" to generate the "Hex" file and also has "integrated Downloading" system to download the your piece of software to the Hardware board.
The Hardware has digital I/Os and Analog I/Os.
Freeduino from EmbeddedMarket.com:
Using Arduino name for any product is not legal. So we are using name "Freeduino" for our product.
Our Freeduino is 100% compatible with Software, Mechanical Design and Electrical Design of Arduino.
Thus there is a difference in name, not in the specifications.
Our full credit to Freeduino!!
At the time of writing this post, we are shooting the Freeduino pictures and making it's user manual so to make your life simple.
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