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.

[Dave Jones] from EEVBlog.com takes “Arduino fan boys” off the garden path getting down and dirty with different methods to capture, evaluate and retransmit IR remote control codes. Capturing ...

You can see the straight key being pressed by a hobby servo in the image above. The servo is driven by the Arduino, which will transmit the series of letters automatically.

The guys at Spiderlabs moved Cody's Arduino sketch for duplicating the master key to the Arduino and tested that it worked on an Onity lock they purchased from eBay before cutting down the components.

To make that actually work, Robofun paired an Arduino board with some capacitive controllers for the base, and connected that to a Raspberry Pi that linked the keyboard to the TV.

That said, the Electron is not intended to be a simple Arduino clone, and it does a very good job of incorporating cloud connectivity into sketch code with Particle-specific functions (sometimes ...