The Arduino organisation has certified the Windows 10 operating system for running on its development platform.

There are also Windows Virtual Shields for Arduino technologies and a wireless access application called Windows Remote Arduino and both are released as open source libraries.

A Windows 10 based design described at the Build maker community conference in San Francisco this week was a security camera built by using Arduino to power the motors controls to tilt/turn the camera and using Universal Windows Platform (UWP) to create the UI, connect the camera to the cloud and to process the image for motion detection and for adding facial/voice recognition.

With Windows Remote Arduino developers can create a wireless interface to Windows 10 devices as if they were physically attached to an Arduino Shield. Arduino functions can be accessed directly from the Universal Windows Application.

The Arduino commands execute on a wirelessly connected Arduino device. This opens the potential to use Windows 10 device features such as Image processing, Speech recognition, Website parsing, Cameras and Advanced Audio pipelines.

The wireless protocol will allow the features of Windows smartphones such as GPS, Web connectivity/parsing, touch display, speech technologies to be incorporated into Arduino-based designs.