Arduino microcontrollers have added Python to the range of compatible programming languages. Others can be used, and not just Arduino's own IDE app.

Arduino simplifies things by only using just one coding language. Here's what you need to get started with developing software for the tiny device.

You start by learning the Arduino programming language, which is based on C/C++, to master the fundamentals of hardware and how things work -- before moving onto other languages.

It's also compatible with either of those products, meaning it can click in to LEGO bricks and use the Arduino programming language to command those blocks into action.

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The Pi-Bot Arduino Robotic learning platform is a kit which has been specifically designed to allow beginners to build a robot from scratch and program it using the Arduino programming language.