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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

Running the Arduino development environment for the first time

Well, it may have seemed more complicated than it really was, but finally, you have your programming environment ready to work. It's time to create our first test, take a tour of it, and meet all its parts and structures.

On the first run, the Arduino development environment should look like this:

Running the Arduino development environment for the first time

Arduino development environment

Basically, it's divided into three sections:

  • The toolbar at the top with buttons for the more usual commands
  • The code editor in the middle, where you will write your sketch, as we commonly call an Arduino program's code
  • The message area at the bottom, where you will get information about the status of your sketch and possible location of errors in it

Let's take a closer look at each one of these zones so that you can begin to use them.

The toolbar

In the toolbar, you're going to find a total of six buttons to call the more usual commands of the development environment.

The toolbar

Buttons on the toolbar...

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