In this tutorial of Arduino, you will be guided to setup the Arduino IDE to work with Trinket, Gemma, Flora, and more. It’s generally straightforward to program these panels by downloading and installing a preconfigured version of the Arduino IDE, where you can run with your Adafruit board in instants!
The most recommended link for most of the users is Arduino 1.6.x IDE install page to install the latest version of Arduino IDE. Those who are dealing in the older version of the Arduino IDE follow the Arduino 1.0.x IDE install page. And of course, for he confused one, stick to latest 1.6.x instructions.
Arduino 1.6.x IDE, the newest version of Arduino and acclaimed for most users, can follow the steps for super Easy Installation with support for Adafruit’s boards. In this version or higher, 3rd party boards can be directly added from the stock IDE. So, begin the process by downloading the latest release of the Arduino IDE i.e. version 1.6.4 or higher.
After the download and installation of the latest version, start the IDE and direct to the Preferences menu. It can be accessed from the Filemenu in Windows or Linux, or the Arduino menu on OS X.
A URL is added to the new Additional Boards Manager URLs option. The catalogue of URLs is comma disjointed, and make sure to add each URL once. Each time the Board manager is opened, new Adafruit boards and updates to existing boards automatically. The URLs point to index files that the Board Manager uses to construct the catalogue of available & installed boards.
To discover the latest list of URLs, visit third party board URLs on the Arduino IDE wiki. Copy and paste the link into the Additional Boards Manager URLs option in the Arduino IDE preferences. Now the Adafruit Board Support package is added into the “Additional Board Managers URLS” box. Click OK to store the fresh preference settings.
Note that affixing the link to the Adafruit board support package does not essentially install anything, it simply states the whereabouts of the Arduino IDE software. After the addition, open the Boards Manager by navigating to the Tools->Board menu. There, you have to click on the group drop down menu on the top left hand side of the window and handpick Contributed.
With this, you can select and install the boards delivered by the URLs added to the preferences. Now, quit the Arduino IDE and reopen it to safeguard that all of the boards are correctly installed. You can now see the new boards registered in the Tools->Board menu.
Lastly stick to the steps further down for your platform to conclude the installation – basically installing drivers and permissions management.
For complete details, hit the following link – :
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-arduino-ide-setup?view=all
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