Beginning Arduino Programming

Arduino Memory

The challenging thing with arrays is that they can begin to fill up a relatively enormous amount of memory space. For example, if you look at programming arrays in C for a desktop computer, programmers will often use massive data strings in their arrays to take advantage of all of that RAM and hard-drive memory space. Unlike a computer, our microcontroller has to be programmed differently because it only has a very, very small amount of memory in comparison and arrays take up a lot of that memory space. For example, every letter in a character array takes up one byte of memory so a single 32-character message, like the ones we used in our project code, is going to take up 34 bytes of memory when it is split into two arrays. This ...