The p-Code Machine

Recently I’ve been re-entering the world of electronics, and more particularly microcontrollers. Back in the day I had some introductory experience with Parallax’s BASIC Stamp, which wasn’t that great. Only recently I discovered the Arduino project, which is absolutely awesome.

The original Arduino IDE is written in Java however, and that makes for poor integration on the Linux platform, particularly with Ubuntu Unity. Luckily enough someone has been busy to do a simple rewrite of the original IDE in Python and GTK, making a fully Linux native IDE, and it’s called Gnoduino, and I even have a PPA for it.

I did a screencast on the general topic of Arduino and the differences between the original IDE and the Gnoduino IDE:

You can also download the video for offline viewing if you prefer.