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Neil Kolban edited this page Dec 23, 2015 · 10 revisions

Our goal is to end up with an Arduino IDE environment into which we can enter or load sketches, compile them and then run them on an instance of a Raspberry Pi. We are currently assuming that you have access to a PC upon which you are running the Arduino IDE. In time, we will support Windows and Mac but for just now, we will assume just a Linux based PC (or a guest Linux running on some other operating system). We are also assuming that your Pi is network connected to your PC.

The configuration of our story will come in two parts. There is configuration to be done on the PC and there is configuration to be done on the Pi. Here is the list of logical steps we will be performing and then we will break those down into more detailed steps:

####On the PC

  1. Install the latest Arduino IDE.
  2. Configure the IDE to know about a new board type called "RaspberryPI"
  3. Download and install an ARM cross compiler tool-chain used to compile Arduino sketches on the PC for execution on the Pi

####On the Pi

  1. Configure the Pi to accept the application developed and compiled on the remote PC over the network.

####Install the latest Arduino IDE In this step you need to install the latest Arduino IDE. This can be freely downloaded from the Arduino website. Since we are illustrating Linux here, download one of either the 32 bit or 64 bit Linux variants.

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