[ELECTRON] Arduino.

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 15:26 +0000, Ben Dembroski wrote:
> I'm pretty lazy.
> 
> I've used a few flavours of the Arduino (Standard, Mega, Nano,
> Freedunio, etc.) always programmed using the Arduino language.

I have a couple of tinker.it "real" Arduinos (both 168-based) and a
Freeduino (328-based).  I rarely bother with the slow, awkward and
eye-bleedingly ugly Java IDE.  It's fairly easy just to use normal
makefiles and a proper editor.  They just use avr-gcc and friends, with
a fairly straightforward STK500 bootloader so you can upload code to
them.

I started writing a gedit plugin to duplicate the functionality of the
Arduino IDE without the horrific overhead of running Java, but I got
bored and shelved it.

Gordon MM0YEQ