I had a MOST frustrating time (3 or 4 hours) trying to get the Arduino IDE running on a Linux home computer – actually, two computers, as I was getting nowhere on the first – although what I ...

Arduino is the perfect introduction to microcontrollers and electronics. The recent trend of powerful, cheap, ARM-based single board Linux computers is the perfect introduction to computer science, ...

This article is a bit different from my usual column in two ways. First, it's starting with a hardware and software combo—something I've not done before. Second, the projects are linked to each other ...

Back in the olden days, when the Wire library still sucked, the Arduino was just a microcontroller. Now, we have single board computers and cheap microcontrollers with WiFi built in. As always, ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

The official Arduino development team has this week announced that the latest Arduino IDE 2.0 has now been made available as a stable release and is now available to download. The second generation ...

Developers, makers and hobbyists that enjoy using the Arduino platform and the latest release of the Arduino IDE, will be pleased to know that the IDE releases have now changed from nightly builds to ...

UDOO is a new development platform designed to be compatible with Arduino, Linux, Android and the Google 2012 SDK. Its designers state that their goal was to bring together the best of Arduino and the ...