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Arduino IDE w/ LPC824

In Book on Oct 14, 2015 at 00:01

What will it take to support the LPC824 µC, i.e. the Tinker Pico, from the Arduino IDE?

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As the Arduino IDE has been evolving and growing over the years, more and more µC platforms have been added – both officially and unofficially – after the initial ATmega µC’s. One of the earlier ones was Energia, which was created as a fork to support TI’s MSP430 chips, but as the IDE matured, it has become easier to support several other architectures in the mainstream build as a simple add-on, such as ESP8266 and STM32.

Sooo… let’s try and find out how hard it would be to include our LPC824 µC into the mix:

Update: the following two articles are postponed to next week. Sorry for the bad planning:

  • A quick hack to make it compile – Fri
  • Uploading via the IDE – Sat

So far, this is merely an exploration, as I said. A complete port will take considerably more effort. I’m also considering moving a bit beyond the digitalRead/Write conventions…

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