Arduino microcontrollers for students of Nizhny Novgorod RadioTechnical College

A batch of Arduino microcontrollers has come to NRTK for practical training on the subject “Programming Microcontrollers in High-Level Language”.

One of the devices fell into the hands of employees of the Computing Center NRTK. That's what came out of it :)


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Pilot video tutorial on using the Arduino was adopted positively. We plan to release short video tutorials on working with Arduino for students of the NRTC in the future.



Previously, we had to use Soviet models of such devices, which required the use of a bulky power supply and soldering the board. In addition, AVR-Studio had to be used for flashing old devices, which limited us in choosing the operating system.

With Arduino in NRTK, everything has become much simpler:
* For work of Arduino, you only need to connect to a computer via USB (without additional power supply units)
* All external devices (LEDs, speakers, buttons, etc.) are connected without “soldering” and can be easily dismantled and replaced.
* The program for the microcontroller is written in a C-like language.
* The development and firmware download environment for Arduino is written in Java and works fine under Linux, Windows and MacOSX.
* Arduino are great for organizing the practice of “Fundamentals of Algorithmization”. The work of the created algorithm can be checked immediately on the physical device.

Details in the NRTK News Blog