I am so happy to receive my very first open source hardware: the Arduino Uno Revision 3 (R3)!
I got my Arduino from a local reseller based in Las Piñas City over last week, and was delivered Monday this week via LBC.
“… Arduino is an open-source computer hardware and software company, project and user community that designs and manufactures microcontroller-based kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world.” — Wikipedia
Using the Arduino software (download of which took a considerable amount of time — guess their webserver is slow), I am able to send some commands to the Arduino connected to my MacBook Pro:
The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing and other open-source software.
The code above made several lights in the Arduino’s board to blink. What’s so awesome with the Arduino is that I can throw C/C++ codes right into it (my friends know how much I love those programming languages)!
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Robert “Bob” Reyes is a technologist, an IT Consultant and Tech Speaker, a certified Google IT Support Specialist, and an Open Source advocate representing the global non-profit Mozilla (makers of Firefox) in the Philippines. Bob is a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation and an aviation subject matter expert contributor for Spot.PH.
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