Arduino Resources

[Andrew Davie]

IDEs

The Arduino IDE is charmingly basic and does the job. Good enough for most use, but no debugging.

I am yet to understand exactly the limits of debugging Arduino stuff, but there are a number of YouTube videos showing it in action using an Eclipse IDE plugin/setup. I installed Sloeber and it worked on a sample (blink) project out of the box in terms of editing/upload, but I haven't worked out how to debug with it. The main guy writing it seems to be a bit of a nutter - I like that, but beware. Eclipse is a great IDE but extremely complex for a beginner.

I kind of like the Arduino IDE for it's basic simplicity. Essentially all I did was plug in the Arduino Micro to a USB cable and my (OSX) computer, download and installed Arduino IDE, selected the example project "Blink" and clicked the upload button. It compiled the code, and the LED on the device started blinking, as per the code.

[Andrew Davie]

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