How To Setup Arduino IDE
How To Setup the IDE One of the great things about the RF devices by komby is the ease of programming. All of the RF1 and RFPixelControl devices are able to be programmed with the Arduino IDE! The Arduino IDE is an open source Development Environment which makes it really easy to load code onto a RF1 or RFPixelControl device.
Getting the IDE
- Download the IDE from http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
- For Windows - Zipped Archive, Just unzip it and put it where you keep your programs.
- For Windows - Installer, Execute the installer.
- Double Click the Arduino application and launch it for the first time.
Click to Launch Arduino IDE
Now that was fun, but we need some libraries to make this all work. Close the Arduino Application and Download The following libraries
Required Libraries
- RF24: https://github.com/maniacbug/RF24/archive/master.zip
- RFPixelControl: https://github.com/komby/RFPixelControl/archive/master.zip
Optional Libraries
- FastSPI_LED2 : https://code.google.com/p/fastspi/downloads/list
- WM2999 - Holiday Time Color Changing Lights:https://github.com/komby/WM2999/archive/master.zip
- GECE: http://www.digitalmisery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GEColorEffects-Arduino-1.0.zip
- AdaFruit WS8201: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-WS2801-Library/archive/master.zip
When you are all done with getting your libraries You will need to unzip them and put them in your Arduino Libraries folder
- Note: you need to remove all the special characters
Un-Zip libraries - When you are done renaming them your Libraries folder should look like this:
Rename Libraries and remove special characters
What my Library should look like
Now we need to verify that they installed correctly Relaunch the Arduino IDE In the File->Examples you should be able to verify that the examples from the RFPixelControl and other libraries are now available.
Congrats you have installed the IDE, Lets load some firmware and start blinking