Sinha Ventures Launches Embedr, an AI-First LLM-Powered Arduino Development Environment

Indian development form Sinha Ventures has launched a Cursor-inspired integrated development environment (IDE) for Arduino-compatible microcontrollers, featuring an artificial intelligence first approach — courtesy of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash large language model (LLM).

"Embedr is an AI-enhanced Arduino IDE that helps with your projects. Plan, build, and learn with your personal AI copilot — all locally," the company says of its creation. "From intelligent code completion to visual debugging, Embedr provides all the tools you need for Arduino development. [It] contains all the features of the Arduino IDE that you're already familiar with. Same tools, same workflow, enhanced with AI capabilities to boost your productivity."

Using large language models to assist with programming tasks — or, in the case of so-called "vibe coding," to handle the entirety of the programming — is a hot topic at present. Proponents say that it can dramatically boost productivity, while opponents point to copyright and licensing issues, low code quality, the ever-present "hallucination" problem, and even studies suggesting a loss in critical thinking skills for those who use such systems. That hasn't stopped their deployment, though: Arduino recently added an LLM to its cloud-based development environment, GitHub has its own Copilot, and companies like Cursor provide an AI-first integrated development environment.

It's Cursor, in fact, which inspired Sinha's Embedr. This uses Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash large language model to handle skeleton project creation, code completion, and even debugging — with the promise that support for more coding-centric LLMs will follow through the ability to add an application programming interface (API) key and call arbitrary external models. The project hasn't been created from scratch, though: it's based on Microsoft's Monaco Editor, a component of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and the Arduino Command Line Interface (CLI) tools.

More information on the project, which is in the very early stages of development, is available on the official website; pricing is set at free for up to 20 requests and 500 code completions per month, $3 monthly for up to 800 requests and unlimited completions, and $24 a month for unlimited requests and completions.

The project's source code, meanwhile, is available on GitHub under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license — which, on the face of it, would appear to go against the MIT license under which the Monaco Editor and the GNU General Public License 3 under which the Arduino CLI tools are published, suggesting Sinha may find itself required to modify the project's licensing in the near future.