Background knowledge about Arduino
The birth of the first Arduino board dates back to 2005. Some of the project founders usually met in the Italian bar "Arduino", which in turn was named after the former king of Italy Arduin of Ivrea. The bar eventually became eponymous for the platform. Massimo Banzi and Cuartielles developed the first board and David Mellis wrote the corresponding programming language. They published the schematic on the Internet and placed it under a Creative Commons license. In 2006, the Arduino project received an award in the Digital Communities category at the Prix Ars Electronica. While the first edition was 200 units, about 50,000 Arduino boards were sold by 2008.
Arduino boards in the online shop
We carry a wide range of Arduino boards. For example, discover the Arduino Micro, which was developed in collaboration with Adafruit and has integrated USB communication. A smaller alternative is the Arduino Nano, which works with a mini-B USB cable. The Arduino Mega 2560 differs from its predecessors in that it does not use an extra FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip, but an ATmega16U2 as USB-to-serial converter.
