In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects.

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 ...

The Arduino IDE is used to write the program that will interact with your Arduino and the devices connected to it. In the Arduino world, such a program is called a sketch, which has its origin in its ...

A Live Debug Mode gives an instant view of the PLC’s operations and there is also code analysis with the PLC IDE Oscilloscope view (right). Arduino writes: “You can mix PLC programming with Arduino ...

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

Step 14 Launch the Arduino IDE Assuming you’re using Windows, you need to open up the Arduino IDE program that we installed in the last part of the tutorial.

Everything you might want in an IDE except debugging (but don’t forget the Arduino IDE doesn’t have debugging either). You don’t have to use the online IDE if you prefer to use a local ...