Arduino

Arduino is one of, if not the most used electronics prototype platforms, being both cheap and fast to prototype with.

All the different Arduino boards have microcontrollers on them, that you can program from both Windows, MacOS, and Linux operating systems (Raspberry Pi included). Arduino also has it's own software IDE, where it is easy to program the board and download new libraries that other users have created (This is key to mechatronic prototyping!).

You can download the latest IDE here.

If you want to know more about Arduino, we recommend reading these two pages from the Arduino website:

• Arduino Introduction
• Arduino Foundations