diff --git a/pkgs/development/arduino/platformio/chrootenv.nix b/pkgs/development/arduino/platformio/chrootenv.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4aad955ec24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/arduino/platformio/chrootenv.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ lib, buildFHSUserEnv, platformio, stdenv }:
+
+buildFHSUserEnv {
+  name = "platformio";
+
+  targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs;
+    [
+      python27Packages.python
+      python27Packages.setuptools
+      python27Packages.pip
+      python27Packages.bottle
+      python27Packages.platformio
+      zlib
+    ]);
+  multiPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs;
+    [
+      python27Packages.python
+      python27Packages.setuptools
+      python27Packages.pip
+      python27Packages.bottle
+      zlib
+      python27Packages.platformio
+    ]);
+
+   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+     description = "An open source ecosystem for IoT development";
+     homepage = http://platformio.org;
+     maintainers = with maintainers; [ mog ];
+     license = licenses.asl20;
+  };
+
+  runScript = "platformio";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/arduino/platformio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/arduino/platformio/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dfdd8141aaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/arduino/platformio/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+{ pkgs, newScope }:
+
+let
+  callPackage = newScope self;
+
+  self = rec {
+      platformio-chrootenv = callPackage ./chrootenv.nix { };
+  };
+
+in self
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b6f85d1adf7..baf60ddbd92 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2747,6 +2747,9 @@ let
 
   plan9port = callPackage ../tools/system/plan9port { };
 
+  platformioPackages = callPackage ../development/arduino/platformio { };
+  platformio = platformioPackages.platformio-chrootenv.override {};
+
   plex = callPackage ../servers/plex { };
 
   ploticus = callPackage ../tools/graphics/ploticus {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8d8935a6354..3a8dca6c33b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -13780,6 +13780,27 @@ in modules // {
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ unittest2 ];
   };
 
+  platformio =  buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "platformio-${version}";
+    version="2.7.0";
+
+    disabled = isPy3k || isPyPy;
+
+    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+      url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/platformio/platformio-${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0bjp8gapd8v5az0xvsgh44zyma5kazhhbq266fk092i2q348zbv6";
+     };
+
+     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ click_5 requests2 bottle pyserial lockfile colorama];
+
+     meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+     description = "An open source ecosystem for IoT development";
+     homepage = http://platformio.org;
+     maintainers = with maintainers; [ mog ];
+     license = licenses.asl20;
+     };
+  };
+
   pylibconfig2 = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pylibconfig2-${version}";
     version = "0.2.4";