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I decided to jump into a new hobby. As I have few years professional experience with embedded systems, I think Arduino based hardware will be a nice toy. Also not bad learning experience for someone interested in robotics. I have two questions:
1. A book. Do I need one, and if I do, what is the best reference book for an experienced C++ programmer.
2. IDE. I see there is an Arduino plugin for VS. I assume it's C++ based?
Thank you in advance!
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1. I learned without a book, and got scouted here on this site so I'm building these things professionally now, though I've moved beyond the Arduino framework. It was a good starting point.
2. PlatformIO is a better IDE than Arduino's because you can use it with VS code which gives you intellisense. It's harder to get it set up though. I use VisualGDB which integrates with visual studio but I don't use the Arduino framework with it. It also costs $100 or so depending on which license you get.
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Thank you! These are the kind of answers I was looking for.
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honey the codewitch wrote: got scouted here on this site so I'm building these things professionally now
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I found the O'Reilly Arduino Cookbook by Michael Margolis ISBN 978-1-449-31387-6 quiet good. It's pretty much ANSI C rather C++ though. Have fun! 
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Thank you! I'm a simple man, I like C. 
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The MciroChip Studio is a great IDE, I use it without the Arduino extension running C++.
MicroChip provides plenty of documentation for their devices and is good reference.
If you know C++ and are familiar with embedded you should be good to go!
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Mike Hankey wrote: The MciroChip Studio is a great IDE,
Out of curiosity, what's it currently based on and has it changed much over the last few years? I used it a half dozenish years ago for a PIC32 project; at the time it was based on one of the 2nd tier java IDEs (netbeans???); and the best I could say about it was that it wasn't as klunky as Eclipse.
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MCS is based on Visual Studio Isolated shell, so if you use Visual Studio now you will be right at home.
In addition it has a great debuger that also has a great simulaor.
I know nothing about the one they use for PIC, haven't done anything with PIC.
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Visual Micro plugs right in to VS and works a treat.
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I started with a sampler pack that came with a selection of LEDs, , pots, resistors, capacitors, buttons, a motor and a servo, MOSFets, h-bridge, LCD display, breadboard etc and a starter "Arduino Projects" book. The projects in it are very basic, though. There are plenty of references on the web, and the standard IDE is very basic so I use Visual Micro in Visual Studio. Doesn't cost much, and works well. If you're already experience with C++ and embedded systems and hardware you'll be flying in no time.
If you buy 3rd party copies of the arduino you may have to install a different USB driver - the CH340 chip is widely used.
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Raspberry Pi is supposedly better.
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Yeah. You don't want Arduino, you want PlatformIO and ESP32 or ESP8266.
My 2c.
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to begin with, simple projects can be done with the online Arduino IDE. They also have an
offline version[^]. I don't imagine you will be doing anything complex to begin with, well at least I'm not a hardware guru so I take things slowly
I got an "Arduino" kit off ebay on the cheap, with a breadboard. It works, although it came without any description of the included sensors, but you can use google to figure things out through the identification numbers on various chips. Or buy one of the official UNO starter packs from the website
as for books, I have one, but it is merely an explanation of the sample projects included in Arduino IDE for people that don't know much about programming. So that wasn't much use for me. But I got one "electronics for dummies" book that explains the basics about circuits, if you need that kind of info
hth
nikos
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I am just making the jump into Arduino myself. I bought one of the Elegoo kits (Arduino clone), and it seems to come with plenty of documentation plus online resources.
I haven't seen any of the USB driver issues that get mentioned, but I am just starting, so I can't say it won't.
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Well, they might . . . .
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What cave did you unearth that one from?
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Or should we really be calling it a Distro like Linux does? It's grown far beyond the definition of what an OS is and does.
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Windows started out way above what an OS is with all the pre-installed applications - it is the main reason of its success...
But in contrast with the Linux based distros it is only one, while the distros share a core (the actual OS) and add several layers of usability of different flavors, so they are many...
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What does it matter either way, what we call it does not change what it is or does.
I hear a lot of people prefer the term "piece of crap" anyway.
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