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We all know that Arduino IDE uses simplified
version of C and C++ language All those who
have worked a lot with the Arduino they must
have been comfortable with the language But
new learners face a lot of difficulty in understanding
the coding language
So I have good news for beginners If you do
not understand the basics of C language You
do not have to worry about it There is another
alternative known as Ardublockly and it is
based on Google’s blockly It is a visual
programming editor for Arduino You don’t
need to remember the syntaxes and worry about
the missing semicolons When you connect blocks
the code is automatically generated in IDE
You can view the actual C code that is being
uploaded on the Arduino so that you can understand
what is happening in the background
So without any further delay Lets get started
First of all you should have Arduino IDE installed
in your computer and it should be version
1.6 or higher If you do not know how to install
Arduino IDE check out the link in the upper
right corner or the video link is also added
in the description
Once you have installed Arduino IDE next step
is the installation of Ardublockly
you have to download the setup from internet
Type ARDUBLOCKLY in the search bar and open
the second link ‘Ardublockly - Embedded
Log’ And then click on ‘Download for windows’
All of its releases are uploaded on the GitHub
If you are using windows click on the ‘ardublockly_v0.1.2_windows zip’
If you are not a windows
user you can select other options The setup
would be downloaded within seconds Check your
downloads folder and extract it
Now before moving ahead you have to follow
this important step Find out where your Arduino
IDE is installed Usually it is installed in
the C folder at the following link Right click
on the ‘server compiler settings’ file
and open it with wordpad Here we need to modify
the compiler link currently the Arduino_exec_path
is set to NONE remove it and paste the Arduino
ide link Save it and close it
Now open the ‘ardublockly_run’ batch file
Its environment is divided into two parts
Left one is to add the blocks and right one
would show the C source code that is uploaded
on the board Down the screen the Arduino IDE
output is shown
You can explore the whole software yourself
Go to the edit tab and open the preferences
Verify that compiler location is correct sketch
folder is also shown here Set your Arduino
board here Since I am using Uno so I am changing
it to Uno And make sure that your USB COM
port is shown here where Arduino is connected
Now return
Now I am writing the code to blink the builtin
led of the board First of all add the name
of the sketch This program is quite simple
you have to turn on the led first There is
already a block to blink the builtin LED click
the input/output functions and select this
block Now I have to add a delay The delay
block can be found in the Time functions and
add the wait block Now again turn off the
built-in LED and then again add a delay
Now if you look at the right side the source
code is already generated Isn’t is quite
amazing Now click on the play button and the
code would be uploaded on Arduino board It
will take some time so don’t panic
And here it is our led is blinking You can
do the modifications you can reduce the time
delay and LED would be blinking fast Now you
can develop various other projects with this
software without even writing a single line
of code If you are able to develop it then
do share with us
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