Schlagwort: IDE

  • New Arduino Pro IDE: A closer look

    New Arduino Pro IDE: A closer look

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    Last weekend we announced that we’re working on the new Arduino Pro IDE and we got a huge response! Let’s take a deeper look at what is in store.

    Here are the choices you have to develop code from Arduino today — some you might know, others you might not — and how they paved the way for a brand new IDE. 

    Arduino Create

    The quickest way to get started developing for Arduino today. 

    A simple, modern web app version of the Arduino IDE — with boards and libraries available without needing an install. Just open your web browser, head to create.arduino.cc/editor to get started.

    In the creation of the new Arduino Pro IDE, we chose to build on the Theia framework. As Theia is based on Electron, using web technologies, it allows us to unify the front-end development work and user experience between the web-based Arduino Create and the Arduino Pro IDE desktop application. Magic!

    Arduino CLI

    Designed for power users; everything you need from the command line.

    Arduino CLI is a single binary command line solution that provides builder, boards/library manager, uploader, discovery and many other tools needed to use any Arduino compatible board and platforms. You can include this in Makefiles or use it to add Arduino support to whatever development flow you prefer. Whether you use Atom, Eclipse, Emacs, Vim, VSCode, or are even building your own tools, Arduino CLI makes this possible. You can try it today at arduino-cli.

    The Arduino CLI

    Arduino CLI is already hard at work in the backend of Arduino Create enabling day-to-day development for over one million users. The daemon mode support and gRPC interface means the User Interface doesn’t even need to be running on the same machine as the Arduino CLI — this opens the potential for remote build and deploy to Linux machines such as Raspberry Pi. Third party boards are also supported today through a configuration file. The backend of Arduino Pro IDE is also based on Arduino CLI, naturally.

    Arduino IDE

    A simple classic.

    The simplicity of the classic Arduino IDE has made it one of the most popular in the world — with over 15 millions downloads per year. If you want to develop code for Arduino and prefer not to use the online tool Arduino Create you can get started today by downloading the classic Arduino IDE application. 

    The classic Arduino IDE

    We felt it was very important to maintain continuity with this look and feel in the Arduino Pro IDE. For this reason it has a mode identical to the classic Arduino IDE that millions of you are familiar with — the difference being if you want advanced mode, you have that too!

    Arduino Pro IDE

    More features for advanced users (still in development).

    Which brings us the upcoming Arduino Pro IDE! This is a product still in development, but we’ve opened up the alpha binary so early users can try it out and give feedback – the source code will be released at a later date. Because it is not yet ready for production release you must expect bugs and unimplemented features. (If you just want to get your Arduino project running, we’d recommend Arduino Create or the classic Arduino IDE for now.)

    The Pro Arduino IDE

    However, if you want to be the first to try it and give us feedback to help shape the product as we develop it, please give it a try! The preview is already available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

    Initial feature list

    • Dual Mode; Classic Arduino look and Pro (File System view)
      • The tool only reveals advanced features when you need them
    • Modern fully featured development environment 
      • Modern look, multi-panel IDE with integrated file system view
      • Designed for developing larger, multi-file, repository-based projects
    • Debugger coming soon!
      • Set breakpoints, view trace, step through execution and much more
      • Debug your application without affecting timing with a Serial.print()
    • Open to third party plug-ins and boards coming soon!
      • Add third party boards, libraries and IDE function plug-ins
    • Support for additional languages other than C++ coming soon!
      • Exactly what it says, and it’s going to be exciting!
    • New Board Manager, Library Manager and Serial Monitor
      • All the features you expect in a cleaner more modern environment
    • Basic Auto Completion (Arm targets only)
    • Git Integration
    • Dark Mode
      • Easier on the eyes

    That’s all for now

    We’ve been working to improve our tools and give the community choices that fit their way of working – be that web-based, desktop application or command-line. The Arduino Pro IDE builds on these to bring something new — we’re excited to share the alpha preview with you and look forward to your feedback!

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  • Arduino Pro IDE (alpha preview) with advanced features

    Arduino Pro IDE (alpha preview) with advanced features

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    Arduino Pro IDE (alpha preview) with advanced features

    mastrolinux — October 18th, 2019

    Live from Maker Faire Rome on Saturday, October 19th at 16.00 CET, Massimo Banzi and Luca Cipriani will push the button to release the new Arduino Pro IDE (alpha) — watch this space.

    The simplicity of the Arduino IDE has made it one of the most popular in the world — it’s easy enough for beginners and fast for advanced users. Millions of you have used it as your everyday tool to program projects and applications. We’ve listened to your feedback though, and it’s time for a new enhanced version with features to appeal to the more advanced developers amongst you — while retaining continuity with the simple, classic Arduino IDE that so many of you are familiar with.

    We are very excited to announce the release of an alpha version of a completely new development environment for Arduino — the Arduino Pro IDE. 

    The main features in this initial alpha release of the new Arduino Pro IDE are:

    • Modern, fully featured development environment 
    • Dual Mode, Classic Mode (identical to the Classic Arduino IDE) and Pro Mode (File System view)
    • New Board Manager 
    • New Library Manager
    • Board List
    • Basic Auto Completion (Arm targets only)
    • Git Integration
    • Serial Monitor
    • Dark Mode

    But the new architecture opens the door to features that the Arduino community have been requesting like these that will be following on soon:

    • Sketch synchronisation with Arduino Create Editor
    • Debugger
    • Fully open to third party plug-ins 
    • Support for additional languages other than C++

    The new Arduino Pro IDE is based on the latest technologies: 

    Available in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux64 versions; we need your help in improving the product. Before releasing the source code to move out of the alpha, we would greatly appreciate your feedback. Like all things in the Arduino community, we grow and develop together through your valued contributions. Please test the Arduino Pro IDE to it’s breaking point, we want to hear all the good and bad things you find. We’re open to recommendations for additional features, as well as hearing about any bugs you may find — there’s bound to be a few as it is an alpha version after all!

    Versions (released on Saturday, October 19th at 16.00 CET)

    Arduino Pro IDE Windows v0.0.1-alpha.preview

    Arduino Pro IDE OSX v0.0.1-alpha.preview

    Arduino Pro IDE Linux v0.0.1-alpha.preview

    So give it a go and let us know of any feature requests or bugs at: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide/issues

    For those of you who love and cherish the classic Arduino IDE, don’t worry it will continue to be available forever.

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  • Arduino 1.8.10 has been released with improved accessibility

    Arduino 1.8.10 has been released with improved accessibility

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    Arduino 1.8.10 has been released with improved accessibility

    Arduino Team — September 16th, 2019

    Hey Arduiners,

    Today we are releasing IDE 1.8.10 and you should try it because it’s awesome! With the support of our incredible community, we’ve been improving a lot of (small and not so small) things.

    Besides taking a look at the complete changelog, we’d like to point out one outstanding contribution that we received during this dev cycle.

    Our friend Joe Wegner from APH reached out to us with a very clear plan on how to improve the IDE’s accessibility with some very convenient patches. With the help of co-founder Tom Igoe and ITP alumnus and research resident Jim Schmitz, we’ve started targeting some of the most problematic components that used to interact badly with screen readers (popups, links, lists not entirely navigable by keyboard) while also adding a plethora of accessibility descriptions to components that were basically hidden for blind and visually impaired users.

    To keep things clean, Wegner added a checkbox under Preference panel to enable some particular optimizations for screen readers (like transforming links into buttons so they can be reached using the TAB key).

    We hope it is the start of a lasting collaboration to make Arduino truly available for everyone willing to learn and hack with us.

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  • Merge Week: 1 week, 4 developers, resolved issues for all!

    Merge Week: 1 week, 4 developers, resolved issues for all!

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    Merge Week: 1 week, 4 developers, resolved issues for all!

    Arduino Team — September 15th, 2019

    The holidays are over and we’re back at work, so it’s time to clean up the house. To get ready for autumn, our amazing dev team has decided to devote an entire week to resolve as many of the open issues on the Arduino IDE repository and related projects (cores, libraries, etc.) as possible.

    Starting this Monday, the dev team will be going through the open issue log — analyzing requests, fixing them where immediately possible, and in some cases, reaching out to the original submitter to establish if they are still seeing an issue or if it can be closed out. If you do receive such a notification in your GitHub account (with a subject starting with [arduino/Arduino] …), please help us help you by responding accordingly.

    Big thanks to all of you who’ve contributed in the past and continue to submit the issues you find within the Arduino IDE for resolution. We appreciate your support and acknowledge your patience while waiting for them to be fixed.

    Let’s watch that open issue counter fall by the day!

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  • Mu, a new Python IDE for beginners

    Mu, a new Python IDE for beginners

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    Mu is a very simple-to-use Python editor and IDE (integrated development environment) and this week, version 1.0 was released!

    Mu Python IDE for beginners Raspberry Pi

    New Mu

    Mu is designed to be as user-friendly and as helpful as possible for new Python programmers, presenting just the tools that are useful, such as:

    • Syntax highlighting
    • Automatic indentation
    • In-built help
    • Code checking
    • Debugging

    Great for new programmers

    Mu is intended to be not the only Python IDE you’ll ever need, but the first one — the editor that helps you start your coding journey, but not necessarily the one you finish it with. So when you’re ready, you will have the skills and confidence to move on to using a more advanced Python IDE.

    You can use Mu in a number of modes; modes make working with Mu easier by only presenting the options most relevant to what you’re using Mu for:

    Mu Python IDE for beginners Raspberry Pi

    Available now

    Mu version 1.0 is available now for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi’s official operating system Raspbian! And to help new Python programmers get started, we have created a guide to Getting Started with Mu for all these operating systems.

    Mu Python IDE for beginners Raspberry Pi

    Mu is the brainchild of Nicholas Tollervey, who has worked tirelessly to create Mu. I recently met up with him and some of the Mu team at the world’s first Mu-“moot” to celebrate this release:

    Nicholas Tollervey on Twitter

    World’s first Mu-moot. 🙁

    One of the inspirations for Mu was the keynote presentation at EuroPython 2015 given by Raspberry Pi’s Carrie Anne Philbin. She talked about the barriers to children getting started with Python, including the lack of an suitably easy-to-use IDE:

    Carrie Anne Philbin – Keynote: Designed for Education: A Python Solution

    Carrie Anne Philbin – Keynote: Designed for Education: A Python Solution [EuroPython 2015] [23 July 2015] [Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain] The problem of introducing children to programming and computer science has seen growing attention in the past few years. Initiatives like Raspberry Pi, Code Club, code.org, (and many more) have been created to help solve this problem.

    Raspberry Pi has provided support for the project, helping to take Mu from its first implementation as a micro:bit programming tool to a general-purpose and simple-to-use Python editor and IDE!

    You can find installation instructions as well as tutorials on Mu’s website.

    Website: LINK

  • Linux support comes to Arduino Create

    Linux support comes to Arduino Create

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    Linux support comes to Arduino Create

    Arduino Team — November 3rd, 2017

    We’re excited to announce a new update to the Arduino Create web platform, which will enable fast and easy development and deployment of IoT applications with integrated cloud services on Linux-based devices.

    What this means is that users will be able to program their Linux boards as if they were regular Arduinos. Multiple Arduino programs can run simultaneously on a Linux board and programs can communicate with each other leveraging the capabilities of the new open source Arduino Connector. 

    Arduino Create Cloud now allows users to manage individual IoT devices, and configure them remotely and independently from where they are located. To further simplify the user journey, we’ve also developed a novel “out of the box” experience that will let anyone set up a new device from scratch via the cloud without any previous knowledge by following an intuitive web-based wizard

    The initial release has been sponsored by Intel® and supports X86/X86_64 boards. As a reference implementation, a simplified user experience has been designed for the AAEON® UP² board, although other platforms are already supported by the Arduino Create Cloud platform, such as the Intel® NUC, Dell Wyse®, Gigabyte™ GB-BXT.

    In the coming months, we plan to expand support for Linux–based IoT devices running on other hardware architectures. Until then, you can find more information here and follow the tutorials below to help get you going:



    This entry was posted by Arduino Team on Friday, November 3rd, 2017 and is filed under Arduino, Create, Featured, IDE. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  • Be among the first to try the Arduino IDE 1.9 Beta

    Be among the first to try the Arduino IDE 1.9 Beta

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    Today we’re very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce the new development cycle of the Arduino IDE.

    As you may have noticed, we’ve been continuously removing functionality from the Java package, and migrating them to a collection of external tools. We began this project by moving the build logic to arduino-builder, which now also powers the Arduino Create infrastructure.

    We think that this split will keep the tools manageable, while giving a chance for third parties to integrate them into their products without the burden of a full-blown IDE.

    Moreover, we are introducing another couple of tools:

    One is arduino-cli, which we’ll uncover in the next few weeks as soon it comes out of pre-pre-alpha stage.

    The other is arduino-preprocessor, which supersedes ctags in the sketch preprocessing phase. Moving to a different tool has been a necessary step for many reasons, the most important being the ctags’ limited parsing of complex C++ sketches.

    arduino-preprocessor is based on libclang, statically compiled for zero dependencies execution; it uses clang’s superpowers to extract the prototypes we need, directly from the AST. As a (really nice) side effect, this engine can even be used for context-aware completion, probably the most required feature from the beginning of Arduino.

    Since we’re unveiling such a big feature, it will surely impact the overall performance. To avoid keeping it out-of-tree for too long, we decided to open the beta branch.

    This branch will be a playground for new ideas and implementations, including more collaborators with push powers. The branch has just been populated with all the IDE-related pull requests scheduled for the next release.

    The beta branch is quite peculiar as well, because precompiled binaries generated from this branch will be available directly from the arduino.cc download page. We noticed that nightly (or hourly) builds are insufficient to spot a whole class of bugs, which may harm non-developers, users with non-latin charsets, and so on.

    Being marked as experimental, the beta branch will not be ready for large-scale deployment (although it will probably be okay for everyday use); thus, we won’t provide a Windows exe or a signed OSX app. However, we hope that many people will test it and report bugs and impressions, so we can merge it safely into master in the near future.

    A short curated list of the beta branch’s improvements over the latest 1.8.x IDE:

    • Initial support for autocompletion (activate it using CTRL+space)
      • Attention: Launching for the first time is quite slow and will freeze the UI. Don’t worry, simply wait for it to unstick.
    • Initial work on daemonized builder (using file watchers, will be able to spot if compilation can be avoided, partially or totally).
    • AVR core has been moved to its own repo.
    • Tabs are scrollable. 🙂
    • The serial monitor is html-aware and clickable (if steady).
    • Initial work on Library dependencies UI.
    • Initial work on Hi-DPI support on Linux.
    • Find/replace window is always on top of its own editor window.
    • Library/Board manager show buttons on mouseover.


    This entry was posted by Arduino Team on Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 and is filed under Announcements, Featured, IDE. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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