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.

When diving into the world of DIY electronics, Arduino and Raspberry Pi are two of the most popular platforms that makers, hobbyists, and developers turn to. But what’s the difference between these ...

While Arduino – a brand of microcontrollers that are sometimes used to add mechanics to Raspberry Pi computers – is not a programming language, IEEE Spectrum argues it is worthwhile to ...

(Yes, you probably have to look that up now.) Over the years, I have learned to use different languages on different machines—some too obscure to be mentioned. Over the last 10 years as an educator, I ...

“the Arduino language is merely a set of C/C++ functions that can be called from your code”. Where we come from, a bunch of functions written in a programming language is called a library.

If Arduino were a real language, and you were stuck with digitalWrite(), you wouldn’t be able to use the language for anything particularly sophisticated. But it’s just a convenience function.