Arduino IDE

Arduino IDE 2.0 Goes Gold

Arduino IDE 2.0 Goes Gold

When the project that would eventually be named Arduino started evolving in the early 2000s, their goal was to make microcontrollers more accessible to non-engineers. So in addition to an easy-to-use dev board, they needed something more approachable than the complicated toolchains required by their professional-focused contemporaries. They solved this by creating a simple IDE […]

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How the ESP8266 Community Added Arduino Support for the  Microcontroller

How the ESP8266 Community Added Arduino Support for the $5 Microcontroller

I talk to Richard Sloan, who along with Ivan Grokhotkov, recently added support for the $5 ESP8266 microcontroller with onboard WiFi to the Arduino IDE.

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Designing a Breadboard Adaptor for the  ESP8266 Microcontroller

Designing a Breadboard Adaptor for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller

The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, but to the most common breakout board isn’t breadboard friendly. So we go ahead and build a breadboard adaptor (Part 3 of 3)

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Installing and Building an Arduino Sketch for the  ESP8266 Microcontroller

Installing and Building an Arduino Sketch for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller

The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, we walk you through installing the development environment and uploading your first sketch. (Part 2 of 3)

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ESP8266: This  Microcontroller with Wi-Fi is now Arduino-Compatible

ESP8266: This $5 Microcontroller with Wi-Fi is now Arduino-Compatible

What if you could have an Arduino compatible board, with WiFi, for just $5? Well now you can, because the ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible.

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