ArduinoStudio changelog

Public release notes. Edit this file, push, the website rebuilds — no deploy choreography. Most recent at the top.

2026-06-11 — ArduinoStudio V2.0 🎉

The biggest release since launch: **plug in your Arduino and build — no installer, no IDE, no drivers.**

**USB-first setup.** Chrome and Edge connect to your board directly

over USB. Click Connect, pick your board, done. The desktop Bridge app is now a fallback for Firefox/Safari and unsupported boards — not a requirement.

**Install ArduinoStudio-FW from the browser.** If your Uno, Nano, or

Mega doesn't have our firmware yet, the setup wizard flashes it for you in about 30 seconds — right from the tab. No Arduino IDE needed.

**Connections that fix themselves.** A flaky USB handshake now runs

an automatic recovery ladder behind the scenes, and when it does need you, it's one click — "Fix connection" — not "unplug it and try again."

**A smoother editor.** Setup wizard, dialogs, and panels redesigned

to fit classroom Chromebooks (1280×720 and up). Clearer warnings before anything overwrites your board. Dozens of polish fixes.

**AI sequence generation (preview).** Describe what you want —

"blink the light twice a second" — and get a ready-to-run block sequence. Rolling out gradually.

Under the hood: the repo is now a workspace monorepo with a shared hardware-components package, the foundation for the interactive wiring tool and shared editors coming in V2.x.

2026-06-06 — Hotfix: CRM kill switch + drip cap

Added EMAIL_KILL env switch on the backend — a single flip in

Railway stops all outbound mail in under 30 seconds, no redeploy.

The CRM drip script now refuses to run without an explicit

--max=<N> cap. Bulk sends require an explicit --no-cap flag AFTER a --dry-run review. Prevents the entire mailing list from being walked in one invocation by accident.

New sender-reputation diagnostic script (`backend/scripts/

checkSenderReputation.ts`) — probes SPF / DKIM / DMARC / MX with a green / yellow / red verdict. Run before any campaign.

2026-06-06 — Trust-rebuild: apology to the lead list

Per-recipient apology drafted and sent. Two versions live in

backend/crm/drafts/2026-06-06-apology.md for the public record.

2026-06-04 — CHIPS Lesson Progress Tracking

The gamified CHIPS lesson runner now persists which step the

student is on. Refreshing or coming back tomorrow lands them on the saved step instead of restarting from intro.

The lesson list page shows a gold "✓ Done" badge on lessons the

current device has completed.

Teacher dashboard now sees fine-grained step status per student.

2026-06-03 — CHIPS Wave

20 K-12 lessons authored end-to-end into the new gamified

walkthrough runner — adversarially-verified for ADHD-first copy compliance (≤ 2 sentences per screen, kid-named jargon, no embedded CTAs).

Star tracking + persistence — students earn up to 3 stars per

lesson (started / hardware ran / completed cleanly).

Help drawer — "Skip this step" and "Ask my teacher" affordances

on every screen. Stuck-hint pill appears after 30 seconds of inactivity.

Celebration micro-engine — chime + sting + lesson-done

confetti, with reduced-motion fallback.

Wiring diagrams — schematic-style SVG per starter board with

brand-gold signal wire and labeled pins.

2026-06-02 — LessonRunner + Play/Read tabs

The gamified Play view is the new default on /student/build

when the V2 flag is on. The legacy stacked Read view stays available behind a tab toggle.

Earlier

For older notes, see the merged-PR list at github.com/inteRFaceRnD/ArduinoStudio/pulls?q=is%3Amerged.