And if you could also let me know what components are required, that would be great. It comes with a USB cable. I am also ordering a breadboard and various resistors/jumper wires/the whole deal that I should be able to use with the Raspberry Pi alone but also the Arudino.
I found it from the official distributor list on the Arduino website, I might just buy it from this microcontrollershop website. No way to confirm the Amazon one really considering it isn't on the official distributors page.
The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega16U2 (Atmega8U2 up to version R2) programmed as a USB-to-serial converter. Some people have had problems with this chip, search the forums to find out more.
1.0 pinout: added SDA and SCL pins that are near to the AREF pin and two other new pins placed near to the RESET pin, the IOREF that allow the shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. In future, shields will be compatible both with the board that use the AVR, which operate with 5V and with the Arduino Due that operate with 3.3V. The second one is a not connected pin, that is reserved for future purposes.
I am using the Duemilanove, and I bought a new ATMega328P chip and burned the Uno bootloader on it.
Works fine, and my Duemilanove now boots and loads faster. Just have to select Uno instead of Duemilanove in the Arduino IDE (programming software).
I've got a 328 arduino and a mega, both made in china, and both work as expected. What makes you think electronics made in italy are better than electronics made in china? Of all the electronics you own, how many are made italy? How many are made in china? ever own an italian car? I've had good service from the below vendor.
Actual the term 'fake' is a misnomer as the arduino folks have released all the hardware design files to be open sourced from their very beginning. They never intended to be the only source for their board designs.
What the arduino folks have tried to get others to respect and obey is their trademark of the Arduino name and the various branding artwork and that is why there are so many funny named boards ending with a -uino suffix. The quality of Asian 'arduino compatible' boards may vary from firm to firm but of the couple I've bought they were first class and have stood up as well as the 'real' arduino boards I have. Some of the Chinese firms do try and stay away from branding and naming violation, but most are pretty blatant and try and make it near impossible to tell that it's not a 'real' arduino board.
So buy what you want for the reasons you want, but don't believe all the hate and anger some try and hoist on every Chinese seller of arduino compatible boards, as some are playing by the rules and there is not a quality question on most of them in my opinion.
Thanks for you response, and I guess a benefit of buying an official one is that you know it will be good. With Chinese ones you can never tell. Could you please link me to the Chinese ones you bought or some reputable sites? I'm just a teenager with a pretty low budget and would love to save some money. All due respect to the creators though.
Sorry, I just normally shop for such stuff on E-bay and tend to buy on impulse so I have little memory on what firm I purchased what from. Just read the listings, look at the sellers feedback count and percentage positive. Most Asian sellers I've dealt with on E-bay are very protective of their feedback ratings and will normally work well with you on any issues, I've had only a couple of issues in maybe a hundred purchases and both were just having the wrong thing shipped which was corrected. The biggest issue many have with the Asian sellers is the rather longer shipping time then in country sellers can do. Here on the west coast I usually get my stuff in 10-11 days which is fine by me. As I'm retired the fasted clock I go by is a seasonable one.
Yeah, shipping from China takes ages. Thanks for all your help but one last question - as you can see, the bottom left of most Chinese made Arduino boards says 25V, although the official one says 16V. Will this be a problem at all?
That aside, the "official" brand Uno R3 is on sale right now locally for $15.99. I picked up a couple new ones at that price, as my last free Uno was put into a semi-permanent home in my new alarm panel. I also have a couple of Due boards and a couple of RasPi on my workbench too... the Uno is the workhorse for all my projects though. It's cheap, extremely functional, and of the highest quality. All my Unos have been "official". I considered buying an unknown brand Mega ADK... settled on the Due for that purpose instead.
As an aside, OP: why are you wanting to hook up an Arduino board to your RasPi? There are certainly ways to use them in tandem, but all this discussion of how cool or cheap or crappy or awesome the chinese versions are has perhaps detracted from this important point. Are you sure you need a separate microcontroller? It seems like maybe you want a shield for the RasPi that would let you use arduino shields... or maybe another purpose... forgive me if I'm off base, it just seems like you might not yet have figured out what you really want. Being new to the arena myself, I have gone through many iterations of knowing exactly what I wanted to buy, just to change my mind the next day or the next week.
An alarm system seems really cool, definitely a project I will look into.
And yeah, an Arduino isn't really needed with an RPi but I have seen many projects incorporate both, mainly projects dealing with robotics (which is what I am interested in). In the long run I plan on making an autonomous robot. I don't plan on buying an Arduino immediately, probably after I've experimented with the RPi enough and run into some limitations. But that Microcenter deal looks pretty good, I might pick it up from my local Microcenter soon or just order it to save myself from the 45 minute drive.
The money made from the real thing goes to make this forum possible, it is used to subsidies boards for education world wide and it goes to fund new developments like the Due.
So yes you can get an arduino cheaper but not that much cheaper so that it is worth undermining all the good work these guys do. None of them are the millionaires that the success of this project would guarantee them in any other walk of life.
Give them a break and do the right thing.
Arduino (/ɑːrˈdwiːnoʊ/) is an Italian open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardware products are licensed under a CC BY-SA license, while the software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL),[1] permitting the manufacture of Arduino boards and software distribution by anyone. Arduino boards are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors.[2]
Arduino board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. The boards are equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards ('shields') or breadboards (for prototyping) and other circuits. The boards feature serial communications interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB) on some models, which are also used for loading programs. The microcontrollers can be programmed using the C and C++ programming languages (Embedded C), using a standard API which is also known as the Arduino Programming Language, inspired by the Processing language and used with a modified version of the Processing IDE. In addition to using traditional compiler toolchains, the Arduino project provides an integrated development environment (IDE) and a command line tool developed in Go.
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