I know that arduino is very helpful for beginner hobbyists but what about practical (real life)? The point is ,what can be motivation for learning arduino? Do there exist any famous(well known) applications that are actually based on arduino?
(Just as approximate analogy for new students forexample motivation for learning pyhton can be reddit is based on pyhton)
So,what is/are any well known applications that are actually based on arduino?
How much time have you spent looking threads on this forum. People have described their Arduino project, sometime in detail.
MY personal applications are 1, an anemometer that runs 24/7. My irrigation system storage tank control is by Arduino and has run for 4 years. I did several for my previous electronic assembly business, a coils winder, a drying oven, a solder paste refrigerated storage chamber using a Peltier device.
Many people have extensive remote weather stations.
A place to start looking at what others have done is the Exhibition-Gallery section.
hm if you mention reddit. Setting up another social communication-platform like reddit IMHO is not that motivating for starting to learn python.
I think a certain interest in programming or in microcontrollers in general must be there. Or seeing as the tool that enables something bigger in the sence like seen here:
a special kind of "living poster" for a charity action
or the electronic behind beat blox
In these projects the arduino is really just the tool and not the main purpose
They could be made as a team. There is a designer, a constructor and there is a "microcontroller-specialist"
best regards Stefan
It's not much fun if you can't do something useful!
In the past, using a different microcontroller, I made a car alarm and "wake-up system" with a light that fades-up slowly and then it gently beeps to wake me up in the morning.
The car alarm died a couple of years ago but the wake-up system has been waking me up for many years and I'm still using it.)
My Arduino projects have been more frivolous... Various sound-activated lighting effects, including a giant 8-foot tall LED VU meter that lives permanently in my living room. Although just for fun they are all "real life permanent things" that I use (all complete in boxes with built-in power supplies, etc.).
I visited a company once that was using Arduinos in their commercial (and expensive) product. They were a new-small start-up with about 10 or 15 employees and I don't know if they were planning on switching to a custom PC board in the future but they were selling the product with the Arduino.
The Arduino is targeted at hobbyists and DIYers. The awesome and unique thing is that the development board is the also the final product-project board (or the main board) and the bootloader means you don't need any separate programmer hardware. That makes it economical for one-off projects and it makes it super-simple to get started.
The Raspberry Pi is also targeted at hobbyists but it's a single-board-computer with an operating system and it has standard ports for a standard computer keyboard, mouse, display, etc. A "different concept" for "higher level" projects rather than a microcontroller that controls relays or other special-custom hardware.
There are other single-board-computers and sometimes they are built-into commercial products too.
A "typical" microcontroller product or board has a custom PC board with the inputs & outputs and other various chips for the particular task. You have to buy an (expensive) development board to get started. The software development kit may not be free. A custom PC board has to be designed for the production units and it usually takes a couple of iterations to get the hardware bugs worked-out. Then you need a separate hardware programmer (usually JTAG based) to load program the production boards. It's a long development process that usually involves at least one hardware engineer, a PCB designer, and at least one programmer (software/firmware engineer). And usually more support staff for purchasing the components and completing the documentation, etc.
how about this? Its a recording weather station / alarm clock with chimes and over 800 messages and events. Battery backup and remote control in a tamperproof custom hardwood enclosure.
No breadboards here!
Sample weather log plot during the recent Christmas storm as felt in Florida.
Practical enough to sell!
Also, lots of commercial 3d printers, laser engravers, etc., have embedded Arduinos -- you can tell 'cause DTR resets em!
If the question is about having a stock Arduino embedded in a device that was sold at tens of thousands samples then you’ll probably won’t find that. When you reach a certain scale you’ll go for a custom PCB.
On the commercial side there are also legal challenges with some third party libraries you might depend on and which come with LGPL v3 constraints that businesses usually don’t like.
there are good skills to have for anyone willing to embrace a career in computer science. a solid software or hardware engineering curriculum has to start with concepts, fundamentals, theory and small steps.
I know kids nowadays want everything right away, there is no more patience. This means that those who understand that Rome was not built in a day and hard work and being open to learn new things along the way is a good recipe for many things in life will likely do better... Get the students in that mindset and half the work is already done.
The fact that your smartphone or game console does not embed an arduino should not be a deterrent to learn programming on arduino as it offers a path towards understanding micro controllers, the underlying architecture of a computer at basic level (ram, rom, bus,…) and C or C++ programming with a low barrier to entry where you can build up skills and get rewarding small apps/circuits along the way. Adding TCP-IP connectivity will open up the addressable learning opportunities such as web design understanding JavaScrip html css and of course interacting with a computer over Serial can easily be done with Python programming…
Long story short it’s a good starting place even if it’s not the final destination and tons of custom rewarding personal projects can be built along the way.
There there are probably some 200million+ LoRaWAN sensors in use by now.
In the TTN\LoRaWAN sensor world the Arduino IDE is used quite a bit. Sensors might well be developed using 'Arduinos' but for production purposes it would be normal to use custom PCBs.
This one's far out...
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If that isn't real life, what is? 
