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Codebender. The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino. Over the Christmas break from work I wanted to learn something new.

The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino

I’ve been eyeing up Arduino for some time now, and for Christmas I got an Arduino UNO R3 board. What is Arduino? Learn the basics. Installing an Arduino Library. What's a Library?

Installing an Arduino Library

Arduino libraries take a complex task and boil it down to simple to use functions. Arduino users have written lots of exciting add-ons for Arduino. For example, capacitive sensing takes difficult timing and pulsing of digital pins. We can write the code from scratch, or we can stand on the shoulders of great people who are smarter than we are. Alternative Arduino Interfaces. Overviewing the Options Arduino is awesome!

Alternative Arduino Interfaces

It’s our go-to electronics education platform, and it’s our top choice for rapid prototyping, but it isn’t for everyone. Maybe it’s the cryptic language, or the Java-based IDE, or maybe it’s just the teal window border – regardless of your reasoning, if you’re trying to escape the Arduino IDE, here are a few alternatives we’d like to share. The Arduino alternatives covered in this tutorial range from simple, introductory graphical programming to web-based Arduino interfaces for your web browser.

Here’s a quick overview of each interface covered, we’ll go into further detail later on: Fundamentals of C++ Programming. Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web. Arduino Projects. The World Famous Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge.