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German Diploma in
Automobile Mechatronics
• Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE is an integrated development environment consists of a text editor, complier, drivers hardware interferences
terminal program & AVR C complier.
o Figure shows that main tools of the Arduino IDE . Identify them.
5. 4. 1. Program status
3.
6. 2. Shows the uploading process.

3. Menu bar

4. Version of the IDE

7.

5. File name

6. Toolbar buttons

2.
7. – Text editor for coding
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8. 8. – Configured board and serial port

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2.
1. – Verify button – check if there any errors in the program
4. 6.

2. – Upload – Upload the program to the board

3. 5.
1.

3. – New page – Open a new page

4. – Open – open a saved program

5. – Save – save the program

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6. – Serial monitor – open serial monitor

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1. New – opens a new editor

2. Open – you can open a saved program
3. Open recent - Provides a small list of recent sketches, ready to be opened.
4. Sketch book – Shows the sketches in the sketchbook folder.
5. Examples - Any example provided by the Arduino Software or library shows up.
6. Close – Close the Arduino software.
7. Save – Save the current program
8. Save as - Allows to save the current sketch with a different name.
9. Page setup - It shows the page setup window for printing
10. Print – send the sketch to the printer to print it.
11. Preferences - Opens the Preferences window where some settings of the IDE can be
customized.
12. Quit- close all the IDE programs.

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1. Undo - Goes back to steps, step by step you did while editing.
2. Redo – Goes forward in steps.
3. Cut – remove the selected text from the editor to the clipboard.
4. Copy – copy the selected text and move to the clipboard.
5. Copy for forum - Copies the code of your sketch to the clipboard in a form suitable for
posting to the forum.
6. Copy as HTML - Copies the code of your sketch to the clipboard as HTML, suitable for
embedding in web pages.
7. Paste - Puts the contents of the clipboard at the cursor position.
8. Select all – select the whole content of the editor.
9. Go to line – put the curser on the selected line number.
10. Comment/uncomment - Puts or removes the // comment marker.
11. Increase/Decrease indent - adds or subtracts a space at the beginning of each selected line.
12. Increase/Decrease font size – increase and decrease font size.
13. Find - Opens the Find and Replace window where you can specify text to search inside the
current sketch.

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1. Verify/compile - Checks your sketch for errors compiling it.

2. Upload - Compiles and loads the program file onto the board.
3. Upload using programmer - This will overwrite the bootloader on the board.
4. Export compiled binary - Saves a .hex file that may be kept as archive or sent to
the board using other tools.
5. Show sketch folder - Opens the current sketch folder.
6. Include library - adds a library to your sketch. From this menu item you can access
the Library Manager and import new libraries from .zip files.
7. Add files - Adds a source file to the sketch. The new file appears in a new tab in
the sketch window.

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1. Auto format - This formats your code.

2. Archive sketch - Archives a copy of the current sketch in .zip format.
3. Fix encoding and reload - Fixes possible discrepancies between the
editor char map encoding and other operating systems char maps.
4. Serial monitor – opens up the serial monitor.
5. Serial plotter – opens up a graph of the serial monitor.
6. Board – select the correct Arduino board
7. Processor – select the microcontroller.
8. Port - This menu contains all the serial devices (real or virtual) on your
machine.
9. Get board info – shows information of the board.
10. Programmer - For selecting a hardware programmer when
programming a board.
11. Burn bootloader - The items in this menu allow you to burn a
bootloader onto the microcontroller on an Arduino board.

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1. Help - Here you find easy access to a number of documents that come with the
Arduino Software (IDE). You have access to Getting Started, Reference, this guide
to the IDE and other documents locally, without an internet connection. The
documents are a local copy of the online ones and may link back to our online
website.
2. Frequently asked questions – shows questions answers for common questions.
3. Visit Arduino.cc – get to the official Arduino web page.
4. About Arduino – a description about Arduino.

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