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sonnyp

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Registered: 2010-12-29

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[Arduino] Best tools for Arduino development

Hello,

The IDE doesn't looks like it fits my needs I'm looking for a more Arch Linux/KISS way to play with my Arduino.
Basically I would like to use the editor of my choice and use some build/upload scripts.

Any advices, recommendations?

Thanks.

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

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Re: [Arduino] Best tools for Arduino development

I'm not familiar with any other way of working with Arduino code than using the IDE, however if you are feeling somewhat adventurous, you can always use the gcc-avr/avr-libc toolchain and write code for the micro-controller in C.  This is advantageous as you would be free to choose the IDE or text editor of your liking for creating the software, and by familiarizing yourself with the C language, you may advance to writing code for other micro-controller platforms. 

The down side of this is that you are loosing all of the "rapid and easy" development awesomeness of the Arduino language.

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tlvb

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-06

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Re: [Arduino] Best tools for Arduino development

You would also need to check wether the bootloader that the arduino uses is compatible with non arduino,
binaries. As far as I know the usb is just connected to an ft232 connected to the usart of the avr, where
a software bootloader takes care of the programming.

Google does turn up some answers for arduino command line programming, here is one, though I can not vouch for or against it.

Last edited by tlvb (2011-10-08 00:25:22)

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