Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating ...

Getting it installed is as easy as adding the URL to the Arduino IDE’s Boards Manager interface, though as the video below shows, running it on Linux does require an extra step or two.

If Arduino were a real language, and you were stuck with digitalWrite(), you wouldn’t be able to use the language for anything particularly sophisticated. But it’s just a convenience function.

Today Arduino has announced the availability of the new Arduino IDE in the form of version 1.6.8, which is now available with updated cores for almost all ...