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New Portenta Machine Control library boosts industrial project performance

At Arduino, we’re committed to providing developers with tools that make the coding process smooth and efficient. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the new Arduino_PortentaMachineControl library, an upgraded version designed to replace the deprecated Arduino_MachineControl library. It comes with a number of improvements, from a revamped structure to enhanced documentation, making it easier than […]

Boards:Portenta Machine Control

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New workflow for Arduino library submissions

Arduino library submissions have a new, easier and more transparent workflow that lets the community contribute more, and to do it quickly.

Boards:Arduino Cloud CLI

Categories:Featured Libraries

BLE central support added to ArduinoBLE

This post is from Sandeep Mistry, Senior Software Engineer at Arduino. Today, we are pleased to announce BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) central support in v1.1.0 of the ArduinoBLE library. This major feature addition allows your Arduino board to scan for and connect to BLE peripheral devices. With one simple library, you can now use BLE […]

Boards:MKR WiFi 1010 Nano 33 BLE Nano 33 BLE Sense Nano 33 IoT

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Installing Libraries and how to write a Library for Arduino

Libraries are files written in C or C++ which provide sketches with extra functionality, for example the ability to control an LED matrix, read an encoder, connect to a sensor, display, or module, etc. They are very useful to lower the barriers for creating amazing interactive projects and use a wide range of components. Libraries […]

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Scratch extension for Arduino (experimental release)

With the new (experimental) Arduino extension for Scratch, you can create visual programs to control sensors and actuators connected to Arduino boards. Try it on the new ScratchX site. Scratch allows kids (and everyone) to create their own games, interactive stories, and animations using a visual programming environment. Scratch is made by the Lifelong Kindergarten […]

Categories:Education Featured Firmata Kids Scracth

Arduino IDE 1.6.1 released and available for download

A new version of the Arduino IDE (1.6.1) is available at the download page! A month ago we released the version 1.6.0 of the Arduino IDE. We then received lots of feedback: issues on Github, emails on the developers mailing list and, most important, forum messages. We fixed a lot of issues, here is a brief list: […]

Categories:Featured IDE Libraries Open Source

APDuino Project – Custom Monitoring without Coding

[srejbi] shares a new, programming-free, API-based way to programming Arduino: the APDuino project (minimum hw requirements: Arduino Mega 2560 + W5100 EtherShield). The Apduino relates to a peculiar approach towards Arduino that I noticed in the last years: using Arduino and making things without coding. This is a good thing for people that can’t […]

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Drive a DC Motor With Arduino DUE

We are proud to show you a tutorial about using an Arduino Motor Shield with the Arduino Due. This example shows the simplest thing you can do: driving a DC motor forward and backwards. Read on the [tutorial]

Boards:DUE

Categories:Arduino Libraries Motors

Vertical Plotter Prototype

Nice Grasshopper-to-Arduino plotter hack from FablabTorino maker Pietro Leoni, a collabotator at Carlo Ratti Associati studio in Turin. We’d love to see code & sketches online soon, as much as a second edition of the plotter.

Categories:Actuators Architecture Arduino Coding FireFly Grasshopper Hacks Hardware IC Libraries Motors Servo Visualising Data

Portable and cloud-based heart rate tracker

In his blog, Charalampos describes his experience with SeeedStudio’s Grove Ear-clip Heart Rate sensor and Cosm (former Pachube) cloud service. The employed sensor is quite cheap and can detect heart pulses from the ear lobe, by measuring the infra-red light reflected by the tissue and by checking for intensity variations. By connecting this sensor with an ADK board […]

Boards:ADK

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