DIY Electronics has been a hot topic for over a decade now. Almost anyone with little to no coding experience can get started with programming a microcontroller thanks to the widely popular Arduino platform. Over the years, there have been a huge number of Arduino boards released of all shapes and sizes and the Arduino IDE has even been made to support third-party microcontrollers such as the ESP8266 and many others.

Programming on the Arduino IDE is extremely simple and hence for a long time now, hobbyists have hoped to see a similar kind of development environment for more powerful platforms running on a processor instead of a microcontroller. Programming a microprocessor based development board generally requires a good knowledge of embedded programming which is a bit complex for an average person. That is where Arduino is now trying to bring a solution. The company last month announced that it has pushed a new update to its browser-based IDE and cloud service- Arduino Create to support Linux Devices on x86 and x86_64 architectures.