- Arduino was initiated in 2005 as a low-cost microcontroller platform for interactive design projects. It was named after Arduin of Ivrea and produced in a small factory in Ivrea, Italy.
- An Arduino board is a single-board microcontroller intended to make electronics and interactive object projects more accessible. It is open source hardware that anyone can modify or build themselves.
- Arduino boards can sense the environment using sensors and affect surroundings by controlling devices like LEDs, motors, and speakers. The Arduino UNO is a popular prototyping board that can be programmed using the Arduino IDE language, based on C/C++.