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Maker education is the combination of maker culture and education, based on students’ interests, using project-based learning methods, advocating creation, encouraging sharing, and cultivating interdisciplinary problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills, and innovation capabilities as a form of quality education. An important technological event of the 21st century—the sign of the rise of the maker movement—was the birth of the first Arduino development board in 2005.

Arduino is a set of tools that can be used to sense and control the real physical world. It consists of a computer platform based on a simple microcontroller and an open-source development environment for programming the Arduino board. The open-source Arduino IDE can be downloaded for free; here is the Arduino IDE 1.8.5 download link: (http://pan.1kUI1Pbh)

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Arduino boards can be manually assembled or purchased pre-assembled; Arduino kits are also available for purchase on Taobao.

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Massimo Banzi was previously a teacher at a high-tech design school in Ivrea, Italy. His students often complained about not being able to find affordable and useful microcontrollers. In the winter of 2005, Massimo Banzi discussed this issue with David Cuartielles, a Spanish chip engineer who was a visiting scholar at the school at that time. The two decided to design their own circuit board and brought in Banzi’s student David Mellis to develop a programming language for the circuit board. Two days later, David Mellis wrote the code. Three days later, the circuit board was completed. Massimo Banzi liked to go to a bar called di Re Arduino, named after the Italian king Arduin from 1000 years ago. To commemorate this place, he named the circuit board Arduino.

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