Day 7 - Section 2 - Arduino IDE + libraries installation

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Book: Day 7 - Section 2 - Arduino IDE + libraries installation
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Date: Sunday, 19 May 2024, 6:40 PM

Description

After the completion of this section the students will be able to:

  • prepare the Arduino IDE to support Blynk applications
  • install all the libraries needed to support Blynk
  • customize the Arduino IDE to code Blynk sketches for our devices

Arduino IDE + libraries installation

1. Download the appropriate version of Arduino IDE from the link below 

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

 

2. Install the software 

 

3. Download the Blynk library (.zip) from the github repository

https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-library/releases

or direct link to the latest zip file:

link to latest library file


4. Extract the contents of the file

5. Execute the arduino IDE software and navigate to File -> Preferences

6. Locate the sketchbook location

7. Copy (and paste) the contents of the extracted folder to the sketchbook folder