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Open-source hardware heralds greater creativity

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“Open-source hardware has a long history that predates computers
with the amateur radio community; and personal computing in Silicon
Valley rose out of the hardware hackers of the Homebrew Computer
Club.

“At its heart, Arduino is a programmable microcontroller, which
was developed in Italy in 2005. You can connect the microcontroller
via a serial or USB connection to a computer running Windows, Mac
OS or Linux, and program it using the free open-source integrated
development environment.”


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