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 ...

Arduino is the now-famous microcontroller that has set a portion of the maker community free to design amazing creations. The Arduino board and platform is fairly simple, but it can be intimidating to ...

Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE. Finally, ...

The latest version of Arduino’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE), version 2.3.3, has just been released, and it brings a host of new features designed to make coding more collaborative and ...

Arduino is an inexpensive, small electronics platform for makers. Here's how to get started with it on macOS. When the small electronics platform Arduino exploded onto the electronics scene in 2005, ...

Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...