The Arduino software environment, including the IDE, libraries, and general approach, are geared toward education. It’s meant as a way to introduce embedded development to newbies. This is a great ...

So let’s say your using an Arduino in your project. You already have the hardware-based serial interface working with one portion of the project and need a second serial port for unrelated hardware.

One for those keeping an eye on Matter, the connectivity standard for smart devices and the IoT: Arduino is partnering with Silicon Labs to better enable development of "Matter over Thread" ...