The Arduino IDE is a user-friendly platform that simplifies the process of writing, compiling, and uploading code to microcontrollers.

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

Arduino has announced four new Nano microcontroller-based boards that will be available for developers and makers in late July.

Microchip and Digilent today announced the chipKIT™ platform--the first 32-bit-microcontroller-based, open-source development platform that is compati ...