Arduino serial serial#
Arduino serial software#

In May 2015, Arduino LLC created the worldwide trademark Genuino, used as brand name outside the United States. In January 2015, Arduino LLC filed a lawsuit against Arduino SRL. This resulted in a rift in the Arduino development team. They then appointed a new CEO, Federico Musto, who renamed the company Arduino SRL and created the website, copying the graphics and layout of the original. In 2014, Smart Projects began refusing to pay royalties. Negotiations with Martino and his firm to bring the trademark under the control of the original Arduino company failed. This was revealed when the Arduino company tried to register the trademark in other areas of the world (they originally registered only in the US), and discovered that it was already registered in Italy. Īt the end of 2008, Gianluca Martino's company, Smart Projects, registered the Arduino trademark in Italy and kept this a secret from the other co-founders for about two years. The founding bylaws of Arduino LLC specified that each of the five founders transfer ownership of the Arduino brand to the newly formed company. The manufacture and sale of the boards were to be done by external companies, and Arduino LLC would get a royalty from them. In early 2008, the five co-founders of the Arduino project created a company, Arduino LLC, to hold the trademarks associated with Arduino. It was estimated in mid-2011 that over 300,000 official Arduinos had been commercially produced, and in 2013 that 700,000 official boards were in users' hands. įollowing the completion of the platform, lighter and less expensive versions were distributed in the open-source community. The initial Arduino core team consisted of Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis.

The new project, forked from Wiring, was called Arduino. In 2005, Massimo Banzi, with David Mellis, another IDII student, and David Cuartielles, extended Wiring by adding support for the cheaper ATmega8 microcontroller. The Wiring platform consisted of a printed circuit board (PCB) with an ATmega128 microcontroller, an IDE based on Processing and library functions to easily program the microcontroller. The project goal was to create simple, low cost tools for creating digital projects by non-engineers. Casey Reas is known for co-creating, with Ben Fry, the Processing development platform. In 2003 Hernando Barragán created the development platform Wiring as a Master's thesis project at IDII, under the supervision of Massimo Banzi and Casey Reas. At that time, the students used a BASIC Stamp microcontroller at a cost of $50. The Arduino project was started at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Ivrea, Italy. The bar was named after Arduin of Ivrea, who was the margrave of the March of Ivrea and King of Italy from 1002 to 1014. The name Arduino comes from a bar in Ivrea, Italy, where some of the project's founders used to meet. Common examples of such devices intended for beginner hobbyists include simple robots, thermostats, and motion detectors. The Arduino project began in 2005 as a tool for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, aiming to provide a low-cost and easy way for novices and professionals to create devices that interact with their environment using sensors and actuators. In addition to using traditional compiler toolchains, the Arduino project provides an integrated development environment (IDE) and a command line tool developed in Go. The microcontrollers can be programmed using the C and C++ programming languages, using a standard API which is also known as the Arduino Programming Language, inspired by the Processing language and used with a modified version of the Processing IDE.

Arduino serial serial#

The boards feature serial communications interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB) on some models, which are also used for loading programs. The boards are equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards ('shields') or breadboards (for prototyping) and other circuits.

Īrduino board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. Arduino boards are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors.

Arduino serial software#

Its hardware products are licensed under a CC BY-SA license, while the software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL), permitting the manufacture of Arduino boards and software distribution by anyone. Arduino ( / ɑː r ˈ d w iː n oʊ/) is an open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices.