diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 423d1bbeed..e6712c1f9f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -65,3 +65,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/libmetal"]
 	path = lib/libmetal
 	url = https://github.com/OpenAMP/libmetal.git
+[submodule "lib/arduino-lib"]
+	path = lib/arduino-lib
+	url = https://github.com/arduino/arduino-lib-mpy.git
diff --git a/lib/arduino-lib b/lib/arduino-lib
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..277efd50fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/arduino-lib
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 277efd50fcc637e2e2e87c9aa50c06acc9080970