{"id":134327,"date":"2022-01-19T08:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/arduino-meets-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:22:52","slug":"arduino-meets-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/arduino-meets-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Arduino Meets Quantum Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arduino-meets-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>| Hackaday<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EFZnrl4wkT0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Quantum computers aren\u2019t quite ready for the home lab, but since there are ways to connect to some over the Internet, you can experiment with them more easily than you might think. [Norbert] decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EFZnrl4wkT0\" target=\"_blank\">interface a giant quantum computer to an ordinary Arduino<\/a>. Why? Well, that isn\u2019t necessarily clear, but then again, why not? He explains basic quantum computing and shows his setup in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Using the IBM quantum computer and the open source Qiskit makes it relatively easy, with the Python code he\u2019s using on the PC acting as a link between the Arduino and the IBM computer. Of course, you can also use simulation instead of using the real hardware, and for such a simple project it probably doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the demo is pretty trivial, lighting an LED with the state of qubit. But the technique might be useful if you wanted to, say, gather information from the real world into a quantum computer. You have to start somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Hackaday Quantum computers aren\u2019t quite ready for the home lab, but since there are ways to connect to some over the Internet, you can experiment with them more easily than you might think. [Norbert] decided to interface a giant quantum computer to an ordinary Arduino. Why? Well, that isn\u2019t necessarily clear, but then again, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}