How To Setup Arduino 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 use :http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.5.2-windows.zip
• For MacOS use: http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.5.2-macosx.zip
• For Linux use: http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.5.2-linux32.tgz or http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.5.2-linux64.tgz
  use the 1.5 or newer version
  
  
• 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

Installing RFPixelControl firmware to your Arduino IDE.

The current release at time of writing this wiki is v0.1-beta-1

You need to download both the Source Code and the Support Libraries

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