In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects.

Arduino's Create Agent is what you need to get started to coding, so whether you're on PC, Mac, or even on Chromebook, here's how to download the program.

The hardware itself is pretty straightforward. There is an Arduino Nano to run the speech recognition algorithm and a MAX9814 microphone amplifier to capture the voice commands.