Arduino Internals

Shrink Blink

Let's see what you can do with your old friend, Blink, found in File Examples 1. Basics Blink. Compiled for the Arduino Uno using Arduino 0022, the resulting binary sketch size is 1,018 bytes (of a 32,256-byte maximum). The same sketch, when compiled for the Arduino Mega 2560, results in a binary sketch size of 1,588 bytes (of a 258,048 byte maximum). The extra size can be attributed to the initialization of the larger number of available ...