
Improving the User Experience
While you’re getting set up, you may notice that the quality of
the default font in the Arduino editor is less than ideal. You can
improve it by downloading the open-source font Inconsolata.
To install (when the Arduino IDE is closed), type:
sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata
Then edit the Arduino preferences file:
nano ~/.arduino/preferences.txt
and change the following lines to:
editor.font=Inconsolata,medium,14
editor.antialias=true
When you restart the Arduino IDE, the editor will use the
new font.
Talking in Serial
To communicate between the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino over a
serial connection, you’ll use the ...