Arduino

Arduino is an electronic open-source hardware. It consists of a micro-controller. There is also a software to programm the activity of the hardware. As it is simple, based on an open-source community, Arduino can be used by anyone interested by electronics for a wide-range of applications. Their website is there.

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The first idea of our project was to use an Arduino for the electronic part of our prototype. Actually, we use the Arduino as a energy source for the led, and, for the second prototype, we use it to gather informations given by the photoreceptor. Hence, we do a very little use of Arduino compared to its wide possibilities. Actually, we make the whole analysis with a computer, but a mid-term goal would be to use more Arduino in order to get rid of the computer and have directly a result from the measures.