It generates the clock, acts like a serial port, acts like a disk drive, and so on. However, the ATMega32 doesn’t directly have Arduino IDE support so you have to install a toolchain for it.

While the Arduino family of boards connect to your computer using a USB virtual serial port, the ATmega ones have an actual serial connection on-board.

It’s now Arduino IDE 2.2.0. The new features include Board and Port auto-selection improvements, performance improvements, a smaller download size, and a new CLI (command line interface) version.

The official Arduino team responsible for the development of the official range of Arduino hardware and software, have this week announced the availability of the latest Arduino IDE 1.6.9 software ...

The Arduino development team has today announced the availability of a new Arduino IDE in the form of Arduino 1.8.11. The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload ...

For beginners learning to program Arduinos, a web-based, fully networked developer environment called Codebender could drastically reduce the learning curve.