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 ...

Arduino offers you a broad ecosystem of cheap hardware with a beginner-friendly IDE, helped by forum posts explaining every single problem that you could and will stumble upon.

Although Arduino's programming language is based on C++, you won't be able to use all of its commands. But, you can still use objects in Arduino's IDE, which are a fundamental aspect of C++.

A Live Debug Mode gives an instant view of the PLC’s operations and there is also code analysis with the PLC IDE Oscilloscope view (right). Arduino writes: “You can mix PLC programming with Arduino ...