The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at non-pr… ...

At the end of the video, I go through the initial set up in the Arduino IDE and run a simple sketch. The Arduino 101 and Genuino 101 are now available to purchase priced at €28.65.

The Arduino development team has recently unveiled the latest version of their Integrated Development Environment (IDE), version 2.3, which brings a host of improvements to the platform.