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.
With this support, users can program such Linux devices as if they were any regular Arduino compatible microcontroller. The best part of this feature is that users can run multiple Arduino programs simultaneously on a Linux device and programs can communicate with each other. Arduino also mentioned on its blog that this is just an initial release and in the future, it will bringing support to more such Linux devices running on the hardware of other architectures as well.
This is surely a hint that Arduino Create will soon be supporting even ARM processor-based development boards in the future.
