I'm planning to use arduino nanos to steer signals and switches and led lights on my model railway. I don't want to use the arduino IDE, instead I want a proper makefile and my own regular preferred editor (emacs in my case). And I want it all to have a proper changelog and proper documentation.
So I've made this git repo to get some serious over-engineering done. I'm used to python and buildout, so that's what I'm going to be using. This isn't a project that can be re-used and cloned directly.
What I am going to be making reusable are the various arduino libraries I'll be making. They'll have some hardcoded paths in their makefiles to make it easy for me to use/test them, but the c++ code itself is intended to be reusable, in any case. And those'll be in separate repositories to make cloning/sharing/using them easier.
In 2024, life is much easier than ten years ago. The USB connector is supported out of
the box. No more strange driver from a chinese website. And.... there's arduino-cli!
So the prerequisites are installing the regular arduino IDE (2.something at the moment)
and brew-installing arduino-cli. Then mostly follow the getting started documentation
of https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/ (0.35 at the moment).
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Grab board name from
arduino-cli board listall. In my casearduino:avr:unofor the uno. -
arduino-cli board listto grab the port
Install libraries:
$ arduino-cli lib install Bounce2
$ arduino-cli lib install Servo
And I made a symlink to my local checkout of https://github.com/reinout/servomover into
~/Documents/Arduino/libraries/.
A base.mk provides most of the needed compile/upload functionality.
A Makefile per dir just has to include it and perhaps add a BOARD variable.
Serial log output.