Arduino
========

* Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple I/O
board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring
language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or
can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing and MaxMSP).
The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source
IDE can be downloaded for free at http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

* For more information, see the website at: http://www.arduino.cc/
or the forums at: http://www.arduino.cc/forum/  
You can also follow Arduino on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/arduino or
like Arduino on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/official.arduino

* To report a *bug* in the software or to request *a simple enhancement* go to:
http://github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues

* More complex requests and technical discussion should go on the Arduino Developers
mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/a/arduino.cc/forum/#!forum/developers

* If you're interested in modifying or extending the Arduino software, we strongly 
suggest discussing your ideas on the Developers mailing list *before* starting
to work on them. That way you can coordinate with the Arduino Team and others,
giving your work a higher chance of being integrated into the official release
https://groups.google.com/a/arduino.cc/forum/#!forum/developers

Installation
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Detailed instructions are in reference/Guide_Windows.html and
reference/Guide_MacOSX.html.  For Linux, see the Arduino playground:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux

Credits
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Arduino is an open source project, supported by many.

The Arduino team is composed of Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe
and David A. Mellis.

Arduino uses
[GNU avr-gcc toolchain](http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/avr-gcc),
[GCC ARM Embedded toolchain](https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded),
[avr-libc](http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/),
[avrdude](http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/),
[bossac](http://www.shumatech.com/web/products/bossa),
[openOCD](http://openocd.org/)
and code from [Processing](http://www.processing.org)
and [Wiring](http://wiring.org.co).

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