Smart Cities - Arduino IDE installation

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Background

  • The default Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment) installed on the Raspberry Pi is an older version.
  • This lesson explains how to install the latest version of the Arduino IDE.
  • The current version of Arduino IDE for the Raspberry Pi is 1.8.19

Online Resources

Upgrading the existing Raspbian Operating System

  • Firstly, using the Terminal on the Raspberry Pi, updated the software library with the command sudo apt-get update.

  • Upgrade the existing operating system and software with the command sudo apt-get full-upgrade -y
  • The upgrade may take 10 to 20 minutes.

Download Arduino IDE

  • We need to download the latest version of the Arduino IDE software compatible with the Raspberry Pi.
  • You can go directly the Arduino Download site and download the Linux ARM 32 bit version.
  • Alternatively, you can use the wget instruction.

Download the Arduino IDE Software

  • Create a new folder for the Arduino IDE software.
  • In the Terminal enter the following commands.
    • mkdir Applications
    • cd Applications

  • When in the directory the wget instruction can be entered to download the software.
  • The download takes approx 3 minutes.
  • Enter the command wget https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.8.19-linuxarm.tar.xz
  • Alternatively you can also go to the Arduino website and download the file directly to the Raspberry Pi.
wget https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.8.19-linuxarm.tar.xz

Unpack the Arduino IDE application

  • Enter the following command to unpack the package tar -xvf arduino-1.8.19-linuxarm.tar.xz
    • x - extracts the files
    • v - verbose mode so all extraction operations will be shown in the Terminal
    • f - specifies the name of the archive file we are extracting files from, in this case arduino-1.8.19-linuxarm.tar.xz
tar -xvf arduino-1.8.19-linuxarm.tar.xz

  • Once the package in unpacked enter the newly created folder named arduino-1.8.19.
  • You can use the Tab key to complete the file name (cd arduino + Tab)

Installing the Arduino IDE Application

  • Once in the directory there is an install.sh scripting file that will complete the installation.
  • Make this file executable with the command sudo chmod +x install.sh
  • If the file is already executable you can ignore this step.

  • Start the install with the command sudo ./install.sh

Running the Arduino IDE Application

  • The installation process adds an entry into the Raspberry Pi OS drop down menu.
  • You can find the Arduino IDE entry under the Programming heading.

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