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Arduino Essentials

You're reading from   Arduino Essentials Enter the world of Arduino and its peripherals and start creating interesting projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398569
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meeting the Arduino Family 2. The Arduino Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with the Environment the Digital Way 4. Controlling Outputs Softly with Analog Outputs 5. Sensing the Real World through Digital Inputs 6. Analog Inputs to Feel Between All and Nothing 7. Managing the Time Domain 8. Communicating with Others 9. Dealing with Interrupts 10. Arduino in a Real Case – Greenhouse Control Index

Downloading the package

The first thing you have to do is go to the Arduino site's download section at http://Arduino.cc/en/Main/Software and choose the right package for your operating system and the software branch that best suits your board.

At the time of writing this, there are two different branches. I'll recommend that you use the Arduino 1.0.X stable branch unless you are going to work with Arduino Yún or Due; in that case, you'll have to choose the 1.5.X branch that, at the time of writing this, is a beta version and, therefore, could be a little unstable or could lead to some errors. However, I have to say that I have been working for more than a year with the 1.5.X branch to program both Arduino Uno and Arduino Yún, and I haven't seen any bugs.

On the Arduino site, you will find precompiled packages for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and even a source code package.

Let's take a closer look at each of the supported operating systems.

Windows

For Windows...

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Arduino Essentials
Published in: Feb 2015
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781784398569
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