What is Arduino?

According to www.arduino.cc/ Arduino is an open- source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino is a simple physical computing platform based on input/output board.Arduino can be connected to software’s like Macromedia flash, Pure Data, Processing, Supercollider on your computer. The programming language used for Arduino is C/C++.Arduino software is an integrated development environment cross platform Java application which acts as a code editor and is also able of transferring firmware successively to the board.