One of the things that has been on my TODO list for quite some time was to port the Arduino IDE over to FreeBSD. Fortunately, Warren Block took the time to sit down work on a port and he is please to announce that a preliminary version of it is ready for testing.

I’ll be testing it out over the next few days and I encourage you to do the same. As always, any feedback or patches will be much appreciated. If all goes well, I will be committing it to the tree in the very near future.

The port can be found on GitHub: http://github.com/wblock/Arduino-port-for-FreeBSD