Arduino AI Assistant

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We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud Editor! This expert coding companion truly understands your project and board, and can generate and fix your code in seconds.

We know that many of you already use other AI tools to assist with coding, but switching back and forth between different platforms is frustrating. That’s why we built an AI Assistant directly into the Cloud Editor, where it has the full context of your project and can make coding easier, faster, and more intuitive than ever before.

By taking care of repetitive setup tasks and generating reliable boilerplate code, the Arduino AI Assistant lets you spend more time exploring, experimenting, and building. It’s a powerful extension of your own creativity. After all, it’s not about replacing learning, it’s about assisting it, one smart suggestion at a time.

Arduino + Cloud: coding with AI

The Arduino AI Assistant, powered by Anthropic Claude, is designed to help you at every stage of development:

• Generate code quickly – Just tell it what you want to build, and it will write the sketch for you.

• Fix bugs instantly – if there is a mistake in the code, let the AI analyze and suggest corrections.

• Provide explanations – Need help understanding a function? The Assistant can break it down for you.

To showcase its power, let’s dive into 2 quick demos and see how the Arduino AI Assistant can transform your coding experience! 

Demo 1: Generating an Arduino sketch

With the AI Assistant, you can bypass manual coding and debugging to create simple animations on an LED matrix. For instance, you can instruct the Assistant to animate a column of four LEDs moving from left to right across the display.

Step-by-step:

1. Open the Arduino Cloud Editor and navigate to the AI Assistant panel.
2. Type: “I want to draw on the LED matrix a column of 4 LEDs that is moving from left to right over time.”
3. Instantly, the AI generates a functional Arduino sketch, complete with pin configurations and logic.
4. You can tweak the code as needed and upload it to your board right away!

The AI Assistant instantly generates the Arduino sketch, saving you time and effort. You can then upload the code and watch as your LED matrix displays the smooth animation exactly as you envisioned.

Demo 2: Debugging help

Imagine you’re working on a project where you want to read temperature and humidity data from a DHT11 sensor and display it on an LCD. You write the code, but when you try to compile it, you get an error. Frustrated, you turn to the AI Assistant for help.