MBed

This week’s lesson is to learn embedded programing. I am familiar with Arudino, UNO, mini pro, digispark or ESP8266 wifi module. This time, I tried to learn something new. So I chooose MBed this time.

What is mbed

From wiki, I got this description: Mbed is a platform and operating system for internet-connected devices based on 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. Such devices are also known as Internet of Things devices. The project is collaboratively developed by ARM and its technology partners.

It’s an online IDE, a little different form Arduino IED platform. I hope it’s a start point for my final project.

First open https://developer.mbed.org/ and created an account. You need an account to begin your exploration of MBed. Create an account or signup with the accout you have created. Click on the right-up button to proceed.

After Login, click the compiler button to the IDE UI. You may need to add platform when you first login.

When a dialog popup, you can change the platform or add new platform as you wish, click the Plus button to proceed.

Choose from the board form multi-vendors, and click it.

It’s a detailed description of the board, of cause there are detailed pin mapping you can refer to. Click add to your mbed compiler and return to the compilter UI.

Then create a program from the template or choose the empty.

At the IDE, you may change the code, compile it or export it out for offline development.

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