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 ...

It might happen; you get “Error opening serial port” while trying to upload a sketch after you have selected your board and serial port. It happens due to ...

/opt/arduino-2.3.2$ ./arduino-ide [10887:0924/142312.246531:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured ...

groowy@asus ~> /opt/arduino-pro-ide/Arduino\ Pro\ IDE-v0.0.6-linux-x64/arduino-pro-ide root WARN please install @theia/electron@0.17.0-next.f5433ece as a runtime ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

Back in the olden days, when the Wire library still sucked, the Arduino was just a microcontroller. Now, we have single board computers and cheap microcontrollers with WiFi built in. As always, ...

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, ...