Arduino Boards
Pakronics is an official distributor and stockiest of Arduino and Arduino Educational products in Australia. Almost all the Arduino products are made in Italy and support Windows & MaC devices. At Pakronics you can buy genuine hardware and professional support for your project or an idea. If you are an educator, then you can reach us out for educational workshop & PD for learning Digital Technology. All the product includes Australian standard warranty.
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If you are teacher/school starting with Digital technology curriculum implementation and looking for supportive Arduino activities and projects, then do check out these kits
What is Arduino?
Arduino is a hardware and software eco-system for education and quick prototyping of electronics. The hardware is mainly around micro-controller family that now is expanding with more powerful ARM MCUs. The software is Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supporting complete family of 50+ official boards + 1000s of third-party variant boards.
What is Arduino?
Main board
Shield
Main board
Arduino hardware eco-system consists of Arduino main boards & shields that allow you to add various functionality to your main board depending on your unique needs.
Each Arduino board has unique features to accommodate various functionalities like WiFi, Bluetooth (BLE), low power, LoRa and Narrow Band (NB).
You can stack multiple shields on one main board as long as you are making sure they are not using same input and output pin at the same time.
Arduino Board Comparison
Arduino Boards can be categories into form (size) factor as well logic voltage level. These are critical parameters to device before developing your projects. If you are looking for exploration and learning, UNO boards are most popular as they are medium and include enough IOs to start. The MKR series is designed for quick prototyping solutions, it includes large range of io boards to offer various functionality to your solution. While the Nano series is ideal for small-footprint projects.
Parameters
Uno & others
MKR
NANO
Operating Voltage (V)
3.3 and 5 volts variants
3.3 volts
3.3 and 5 volts variants
Weight (grams)
10 to 30 grams
Greater than 30 grams
less than 10 grams
Footprint profile
Medium & Large
Small
Very small
Arduino Uno
Arduino UNO board are most popular and oldest board in Arduino family. They have content rich as well a lot of DIY tutorials and resources to get you started. If you are beginner or using this for teaching then it is ideal platform. Also, a variant UNO board have microcontroller removable. That makes easy to replace microcontroller if damage as well also easy to make your own board to reuse it. There are more than 1000s of shields and sensors for the UNO board.
- Cost effective under $50
- Removable Microcontroller Chip
- Largest eco-system of third party shields and sensors
- Stackable Shields
- Ideally for learning and entry level
Arduino Nano
Arduino Nano series is a small footprint boards. They are ideally for prototyping or product development of the portable device. They can be configured as low power device and can run on battery for a long time. The Nano series includes microcontroller from Atmega328p, Atmega4809, nRF52840& Atmega4809chip.
- Starts from $21
- Various on-board connectivity available BLE,WIFI,IoT
- Available in 5v and 3.3 IO compatible
- Latest Nano 33 family also surface mountable
- For small footprint design as well entry level
Arduino MKR
MKR series widely used in industrial rapid prototyping and IoT. The unique connectivity solutions like MKR1000 and MKR NB are my favorite in this range.
The MKR series not like other Arduino boards which also have rich ecosystem of shields and carrier boards.
- Industrial quality for quick prototyping and development
- BLE, WiFi, LoRa and cellular connectivity
- Based on SAMD21 Cortex®-M0+ , Intel Cyclone 1CL016
- Ethernet, CAN, Vidor, 485 shields available
- Ideally for serious & reliable solution
All other boards
There are many other Arduino like Mega, Due, Leonardo, Yun, Micro that are available for application specific solution like more number of IOs, ethernet connectivity, more memory, higher speed and small size.
- Application specific boards
- Open Source Hardware (OSHW)
- Control from Bluetooth* smart phone
- Ideal for expert users
Arduino IDE (Software for programming)
Software
You can download Arduino IDE on your PC or laptop to program Arduino and Arduino compatible boards. Arduino IDE supports following OS Windows Installer, for Windows 7 and up Windows ZIP file for non admin install
Windows app Requires Win 8.1 or 10 Get Mac OS X 10.10 or newer Linux 32 bits Linux 64 its Linux ARM 32 bits Linux ARM 64 bits.
Arduino Web editor
Arduino online web editor offers to save your Arduino sketches online as well access it from anywhere.
Always have the most up-to-date version of the IDE, including all the contributed libraries and support for new Arduino boards.
Arduino cloud
Microbit classroom is an online platform to support you teaching and running your virtual classroom.
It can also be used in face to face teaching as it can play an important part for sharing code and monitoring individual student's activities.
Resources
Arduino Guide
All you need to get started with your Arduino board. This guide includes step by step information for installing arduino board and writing your first code
Arduino code reference
Are you looking for Arduino code reference? Following link give you all information about library, function, variable and structure of Arduino programming.
Arduino Tutorial & Library
Learn how to install library and various basic tutorial to get you setup and going with your project.
Remote Learning Playlist
Starter kit
Starter kit
Arduino Day 2020
Remote Learning Playlist
