Chapter 1. Introduction to the Arduino

Every so often a piece of technology can become a lever that lets people move the world, just a little bit. The Arduino is one of those levers. While it started off as a project to give artists access to embedded microprocessors for interactive design projects, I think it’s going to end up in a museum as one of the building blocks of the modern world. It allows rapid, cheap prototyping for embedded systems. It turns what used to be fairly tough hardware problems into simpler software problems. The Arduino, and the open hardware movement that has grown up with it and to a certain extent around it, is enabling a generation of high tech tinkers to prototype new ideas with fairly minimal hardware knowledge.

幾乎每隔一段時間，一項技術可以成為一個槓桿，讓人們一點點感動世界。Arduino是那些槓桿之一。雖然它開始作為一個項目，讓藝術家進入嵌入式微處理器交互設計項目，我認為這將最終在一個博物館，作為現代世界的基石之一。它允許快速，廉價的原型做為嵌入式系統。原來曾經被認為是相當困難的硬件問題轉化為簡單的軟件問題。 Arduino以及隨之誕生的開放硬體運動和他的延伸，正在使一代高科技鍋匠們運用相當小的硬件知識用來展示新思路。