The official Arduino development team have this week announced the free download of its Arduino Create app for Chrome classrooms.

Arduino has today announced the availability of the latest Arduino IDE in the form of version 1.6.6 which has now been released and is available to download.

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

However, as the video above shows, you can also create your own simple apps for your Arduino project using MIT App Inventor.