Arduino is a great embedded platform for prototyping your hobby projects. It is really easy to learn, simple yet efficient and powerful. Arduino Boards are powered by Atmel family Microcontrollers. The board as several features which are so crucial to many hardware applications which includes Digital pins,Ability to drive low power motors, PWM, ability to connect to other devices using Serial Communication, onbard A/D converter which can directly read sensor values and many more. Even though the platform is claimed to be only for prototyping, I have personally used the board for many production projects and it works quite well …