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Arduino is an open-source Physical Computing platform based on a simple
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i/o board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring
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language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or
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can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP).
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Arduino is an open source project, owned by nobody and supported by many.
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For more information, see the website at: http://arduino.berlios.de/ or the
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forums at http://arduino.berlios.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi
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The Team is composed of Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe,
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David A. Mellis and Nicholas Zambetti.
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Gianluca Martino works with us on many projects providing help, ideas and
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taking care of the production.
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Yaniv Steiner and Giorgio Olivero have been supporting the project and are
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working at using it with the Instant Soup platform.
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Arduino uses the GNU avr-gcc toolchain, uisp, avr-libc, avrlib, and code
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from Processing and Wiring.
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INSTALLATION
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Detailed instructions are in reference/howto.html.
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If you are using a USB Arduino, you will need to install the drivers for the
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FTDI chip on the board. These can be found in the drivers/ directory.
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On Windows, you will need to unzip FTDI USB Drivers.zip. Then plug in the
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Arduino board and point the Windows Add Hardware wizard to the FTDI USB Drivers
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directory.
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On the Mac, mount the FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_0_1.dmg disk image and run the
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included FTDIUSBSerialDriver.pkg.
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Also, on the Mac, run the macosx_setup.command (after moving the Arduino
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distribution to your /Applications folder). It corrects permission on a few
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files for use with the serial port and will prompt you for your password. You
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may need to reboot after running this script.
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UPDATES
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0003
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API Changes
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Reversed the analog input pins to correspond to newer boards. This means
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a call, for example, to analogRead(0) must be changed to analogRead(5) in
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order to read the same physical pin.
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Added a printNewline() function (which sends '\n' = ASCII 10).
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New Stuff
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Reference is included (features native to C not yet documented).
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Serial monitor added (click the toolbar button to turn it on or off). Baud
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rate is controlled by the Serial Monitor Baud Rate Menu, defaults to 9600. Icon
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and implementation from Wiring.
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Serial port menu now automatically refreshes when opened.
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New blue color scheme and icons courtesy of Noah Shibley (colors are hardcoded
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into the source to ensure consistency with image files).
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Keyspan and FTDI USB drivers included with Mac and Windows distributions.
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Bug Fixes
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millis() now updates every millisecond instead of every second.
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Bootloader included with Windows distribution (it was already in the Mac dist).
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Updated icon of the Windows executable.
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Now flushing the serial port before uploading (should fix some errors).
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Improved accuracy of the delayMicroseconds() function.
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Other
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Upload rate no longer selectable from a menu within the IDE. Instead, edit the
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serial.download_rate item in the preferences.txt file.
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Created Xcode project for building Arduino on the Mac (doesn't yet regenerate
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the grammar files or package the distribution); active target should be "App".
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Removed unused or unimplemented items from menus.
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0002 - 2005.10.05
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New build process no longer uses makefiles; now controlled by preferences.txt.
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core/ replaced with targets/; can now link against Wiring libraries.
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Replaced print() with printString, printInteger, printHex, printByte, etc.
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Added menu for selecting serial port speed.
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Updated icon.
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Bootloader shrunk to less than 1 KB; fuses updated accordingly.
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Added serialRead(), serialAvailable(), and delayMicroseconds().
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0001 - 2005.08.25
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This is the first released of the unified IDE + language library
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it's a terrible hack... but it works. at the moment it's in alpha stage
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but it can be used to work.
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The processing preprocessor is included but not used.
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