Installing and Setting up Hardware and Software
Hossam Fattah · 2021
Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a popular software editor for writing software code that runs on Arduino-compatible hardware boards and kits. This chapter tells how to install and setup a computer to use Arduino IDE and to connect to the hardware board and run the different projects discussed. Libraries are a collection of code that makes it easy to use other hardware peripherals such as sensors, motors, LCD, or have other example Arduino sketches. Several of Arduino projects described later need additional library to be able to compile and upload the sketch to the NB board. Arduino IDE is used to open, write, or compile a sketch and uploads it to the NB board. The Serial Monitor is a great quick and easy way to establish a serial connection with the NB board. There are many other Serial Monitor programs that can be used to show up data exchanged with the NB board.