The Arduino IDE for VScode (Visual Studio Code) was one of the earliest extension developed. With this done, we are now ready to use the extensions. After installation, restart your computer to allow the installation to settle in. Ensure you select the “add files to path” option during installation.

Follow this link to download the setup file and install it on your computer.

In addition to the components mentioned above, you will need the latest VScode setup. Arduino Uno (or any other board of the family)Īny versions/variations of these boards are fine, as long as they work well when you program them using the Arduino IDE.We will use the Arduino blink example for demonstration of today’s tutorial, thus you will only need the target boards. Quite a number of editors exist and different variation of extensions have been developed but for today’s tutorial, we will focus on Visual Studio Code ( VScode) as our code editor and explore it’s use with the Platform.io and Arduino extensions.Īt the end of today’s tutorial, you will know how to develop code for the Arduino and similar/compatible boards using the Arduino and Platform.io extensions on VScode. For this tutorial, we will take a look, how these extensions can be used to program Arduino.

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