Wiring is an open source electronics prototyping platform composed of a programming environment (IDE), an electronics prototyping board, documentation thoughtfully created with designers and artists in mind and a community where experts, intermediate and beginners from around the world share ideas, knowledge and their collective experience.
And version 1.0 has just been released.
If you don't know Wiring, know that it is very closely related to the evolution of Arduino and Processing. It started with the great thesis work from Hernando Barragán at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy) many years ago (where also Arduino and Processing were developed).
When Hernando created Wiring in 2003, his goal was to create a platform which was easy to use, both in hardware and software, but it was only for a limited amount of hardware. In Wiring 1.0, this vision has been expanded to make the Wiring Framework easily portable to a lot more hardware and to unite the programming of different brands of microcontrollers.
It now enables an easy way for thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists, and even engineers to share code and ideas despite using different hardware.
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