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Concept 10

What is a Microcontroller?

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What is it?

A tiny computer on a chip. It has a processor, memory, and — most importantly — pins that connect to the physical world. Read inputs. Control outputs. That's engineering thinking.

The Simple Analogy

A tiny brain that can sense the world and control things in it.