Arguably the biggest advantage of the Arduino ... lines into the IDE, hit the button, and in a few seconds you’re seeing an LED blink or some text get echoed back over the serial port.

As far as we can tell, the IDE hides the build process ... and there’s still our old friend the serial monitor. The system still uses the Arduino CLI, so that means there isn’t much danger ...

6. Connect the Arduino to your computer using the USB cable. Open the Serial Monitor in your IDE to see the values from the sensor – this will also help you to calibrate your plant monitor. The IDE ...

The traditional Arduino IDE is a desktop application that offers ... The traditional IDE is equipped with a robust debugger, a serial monitor, and access to over 5,000 libraries, making it a ...

Thankfully, with Arduino, there are several debugging techniques ... where you print messages to the serial monitor, or signal through a GPIO pin that parts of your sketch run as expected.

You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the button is not pressed and 1 that the button is ...