{"id":975,"date":"2023-09-04T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pheenek.com\/me\/?p=975"},"modified":"2023-09-09T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T17:23:08","slug":"setting-up-your-arduino-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheenek.com\/me\/2023\/09\/04\/setting-up-your-arduino-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Your Arduino Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ramblings of an old man<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In my years as a young boy, I really hated cleaning up, and housekeeping in general. I would really have loved to wish my room clean. I would laze around, trying to find all sorts of reasons not to clean up. Now as an old man, I can share with you this single truth. Just like cleaning up your life, getting rid of old and stale habits, you must eventually make your peace with the need to clean up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucky for you, that\u2019s what we\u2019re beginning with on this journey to tinkering with this hardware platform, full of potential. Our housekeeping will primarily involve setting up our programming environment for Arduino development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TL;DR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Click, click, click-click, click, click! You can now develop on the Arduino hardware platform!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s dive right in!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all, I\u2019m going to be going through this setup for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Please note that the order has nothing to do with the superiority of the operating system, but if you choose to interpret it that way, who am I to stop you? \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step to getting your Arduino development environment set up on your machine, like any other software, is\u2026 you guessed it! Downloading the Arduino installation package. You can easily access this on the Arduino download page. For the fun of it, I\u2019m going to make this accessible using the following big button below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Download Arduino<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Following my big button above, your browser will open a page which should contain the download options as shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Arduino<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make things easy for you, I\u2019ll let you skip ahead to what setup instructions you need to follow, with the following links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n