Installing the Arduino IDE
To make it as easy as possible to get started with the Arduino, the developers have created a simple but useful integrated development environment (IDE). It runs on many different operating systems. Before you can create your first projects, you have to install it.
Important note: at the time of this writing, two different versions of the IDE are available (1.0.6 and 1.6.0).[27] Chances are good that the 1.0.x branch of the Arduino IDE will no longer be maintained in the future. So, you should use 1.6.x where possible and use 1.0.x only if you need to use libraries that don’t work on 1.6.x yet. The following instructions refer to the 1.6.0 version.
Installing the Arduino IDE on Windows
The Arduino IDE runs on all ...
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