The BASIC interpreter eats up around 600 bytes in the Arduino RAM, leaving about 1.4 kB for BASIC code. Not much, but more than the lowest-end BASIC Stamp.

The basic functions of the Arduino IDE – pinMode, digitalRead, digitalWrite, and analogRead – are available. Most of the WiFi functions work just like the WiFi shield library.

You can find other hardware listed on the Arduino Web site. Amazon offers several basic-electronics books and programming books that use the an Arduino board and the language. Amazon also sells an ...

GPIO programming on a Raspberry Pi using Arduino's Web IDE - this post brings Raspberry Pi and Arduino together.

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.

The Arduino website explains : “The Arduino IDE is a collection of modules written in different programming languages and available for three operating systems: Windows, Mac OSX and GNU/Linux.

The language consists of just 15 keywords, but the IDE is surprisingly powerful to anyone who is just getting started. In fact, Small Basic allows third-party libraries to be plugged in for even ...