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 ...

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 supported platforms including : AVR 1.6.10, ...

Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...