The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at non-pr… ...

Arduino microcontrollers have added Python to the range of compatible programming languages. Others can be used, and not just Arduino's own IDE app.

One aspect that makes Arduino beginner-friendly is its universal programming language, powered by the Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

The Arduino IDE is used to write the program that will interact with your Arduino and the devices connected to it. In the Arduino world, such a program is called a sketch, which has its origin in its ...

For beginners learning to program Arduinos, a web-based, fully networked developer environment called Codebender could drastically reduce the learning curve.

Raspberry Pi launched its first microcontroller-class product yesterday – the RP2040 – and Arduino have now announced they are working with it for their own board, which will be the Arduino Nano ...

Following on from the Arduino Portenta comes another new board from Arduino - the Nano RP2040 Connect, which was first announced back in January.