Programming my Hello Board
I use the Arduino IDE to program my helloboard, the interface of this IDE is really "noob" friendly and the community behind it is juste immense. So for me, a beginner who is on a deadline, it was a no-brainer to go with this IDE. ("The arduino IDE is a code editor with features such as text cutting and pasting, searching and replacing text, automatic indenting, brace matching, and syntax highlighting, and provides simple one-click mechanisms to compile and upload programs to an Arduino board.") As explained on the "
wiki".
It support C and C++ language and using special rules of code structuring. It also provide a software library coming from the
Wiring project. It is very similar from the software
processing but is mamde for programming hardware such as sensor, microcontroller ans else while processing is made to create interactive interface and GUI.
All I wanted to do with my helloboard is a simple program that blink my led when I press the pushbutton. So looking at my board design I already know wich pin will be used in my code.
We know that I will use my physical pin 5 (pin 8 on the arduino IDE) for my LED, and the physical pin 10 (pin A3 on the arduino IDE) for my Button.
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