PlayingWithArduino

This is my playground for Arduino projects.

Setting up environment

I am using vMicro in combination with Visual Studio Community 2015. To directly open and use my solution, you need to set it up correctly (see Relative Paths for Arduino Projects in Visual Studio), in short:

1. Create a top level folder for all Arduino stuff, e.g. D:\Arduino
2. Create a sub folder ide, where you extract the Arduino IDE into.
3. Create a sub folder ide\portable. This will contain all arduino ide settings, which are normally stored in c:\users\[yourname]\appdata\local\arduino15. You need to copy at least the preferences.txt from the arduino15 folder here.
4. Create a sub folder sketchbook. Default location is c:\users\[yourname]\Documents\arduino. move this folder into the sketchbook folder. Then open Arduino IDE, go to File -> Preferences and set the "sketch book location" to this folder.
5. Create a sub folder projects. This folder contains all Arduino projects, including PlayingWithArduino.

The resulting folder structure should look something like this:

\Arduino
	\ide
		\portable
			\preferences.txt
			\...
		\...
	\sketchbook
	\projects

Of course you can set up your environment differently. This is just, how I have done it to ensure relative paths in my solution.