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.

Download the Arduino Open Source Report 2023 here. The support for MicroPython has also been strengthened, offering an alternative to the traditional Arduino programming approach.

Turns out, there does not seem to be a way to know the number of downloads of a library. I emailed the Arduino developer list, I’ll post any updates if there are any.

The basic functions of the Arduino IDE – pinMode, digitalRead, digitalWrite, and analogRead – are available. Most of the WiFi functions work just like the WiFi shield library.

Some of the first steps toward working with Arduino is understanding how to write code for it. The good news is that it's made with beginners in mind.

Installing the library is as easy as checking out the code from GitHub into your Arduino install, so that’s exactly what I did. I then spent a couple days playing around with it.