Arduino Fun Times

Nan over at Mubaloo bought an Arduino for everyone to have a little play with, so now here is my experience of working with the Arduino Uno.

Step 1: Go get the IDE - http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Step 2: The download for linux doesn’t come in an deb, so you can add a menu entry by right clicking Applications > Edit Menu, then set the Name and comment accordingly, the command just needs to be on /arduino

I set the logo image to image below.

Step 3: The IDE requires some library files, so you need to run the following command:

sudo apt-get install avr-libc gcc-avr

After installing these bits I was able to write, compile and load my first sketch to the board and everything worked as expected :)

Orig Photo: https://flic.kr/p/adQqaY