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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

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.

Go to - https://github.com/komby/RFPixelControl/releases

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

Download both of these.

You will be unzipping both of these into your Home directory /Arduino/libraries folder

Note - The release version requires you to rename the folder First unzip the release

  • Go into the unzipped folder
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  • Rename the folder
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    Now copy your newly renamed "RFPixelControl" folder to your Arduino/libraries folder.
  • on Windows this is in MyDocuments/Arduino/libraries
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    Now we need to unzip the support libraries to the same Arduino/libraries folder Go into the beta folders until we find the support libraries

Copy all of the folders inside of the zip archive

paste them into the Arduino/libraries folder, right next to the RFPixelControl library.