The IDE contains a few 'pop-up menus' such as "Preferences" and "Select Other Board and Port". These pop-ups prevent you from interacting with the rest of the application, except for the application ...

Learn the pros and cons of using Arduino IDE vs. other development tools for embedded software. Compare ease of use, portability, compatibility, flexibility, and scalability.

The Arduino IDE's Tools > Port menu is populated by the discovered ports. An unexpected lack of a port is a common problem for Arduino users. This might happen when the user has a bad USB cable, ...

As if it weren’t confusing enough in the Arduino world these days, now we’re going to have to deal with conflicting version numbers for the IDE. Yup, it’s been forked. Arduino LLC is ...

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 latest version of Arduino’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE), version 2.3.3, has just been released, and it brings a host of new features designed to make coding more collaborative ...

The Arduino IDE 2.0 is the new official IDE for sketch development, the 1.8 and older versions are from now on legacy. This means that the Arduino team must be pretty confident about their new IDE. So ...

A new version of the Arduino IDE (1.6.2) is available at the download page! The Arduino IDE 1.6.2 features new one click install of boards and libraries. With 1.6.2, two new menu items are ...

If the Arduino IDE doesn't cut it for you, then you should try to program Arduino with PlatformIO and Visual Studio Code!