And then you need the actual working knowledge and experience to wield a tool, be it a hammer, laser cutter, or an IDE. [Mega Das] brought together all of these skill to build a MIDI controller.

Plug-in Niceties All the above is what Eclipse brings. The Arduino plugin also provides a dialog that gives you control over the development parameters by replacing the Arduino IDE drop down menus.

Arduino simplifies things by only using just one coding language. Here's what you need to get started with developing software for the tiny device.

Blynk is sort of a prototyping board on your smartphone with drag and drop buttons, sliders, displays, graphs, and other widgets that can be arranged on the screen in minutes to control Arduino ...

There is a new mobile platform that quickly syncs up with your homemade electronic projects, called Blynk, free on iOS and Android.

The Blynk app project is currently over on the Kickstarter crowd funding website looking to raise $10,000 in pledges. So if you think Blynk is something your Arduino or Raspberry Pi projects could ...