Before learning Arduino programming, I would like to share a little story with everyone:
One day in 2005, an electronics major student complained to his teacher, Professor Banzi, saying, “The microcontrollers available on the market are both expensive and difficult to use. Do you have any good solutions to this problem?”
Coincidentally, a visiting scholar from Spain named David Cuartielles had just arrived at their school. Professor Banzi discussed with this scholar how to design a cheap and user-friendly circuit board and invited the questioning student, David Mellis, to join the design.
(This video was recorded by myself)
In less than a week, they had written the code (software) and designed the circuit board (hardware). However, although the product was created, they had not yet thought of a name. Professor Banzi remembered a café (pub) he often visited called “Arduino” and suggested, “Why don’t we just call it Arduino?”
Thus, Arduino was born.
To distinguish between software and hardware, we refer to the programming software as the “Arduino IDE”. The hardware, due to its variety, is collectively referred to as the “Arduino series”.
Both the software and hardware were developed well, but the development team did not understand operations. Their company not only failed to grow stronger but almost went bankrupt. To avoid their hard work going to waste, the Arduino team decided to open-source their hardware, and this decision made Arduino popular worldwide.
Alright, that’s the end of today’s story. Tomorrow we will continue to learn about the Arduino programming board.
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