Hello,
I use now wokwiki to play with the arduino with small projects like this one :
Can then the free edition of the cloud ide be a good replacment for it
Wokwiki has sometimes a lot of waiting time for project and as far as I know no code completation
If you can't wait for free stuff, compile (click the "play" button) the moment you see the "load" meter.
Hi @roelofw. They are two different things. Wokwi is a simulator. It is used to create a virtual model of an Arduino project so that we can observe the behavior even without any physical hardware.
Arduino Cloud is a tool for creating Arduino projects that will run on physical hardware. It does not have a simulation capability. It does have the ability to upload the compiled sketch to a real Arduino board, which can then interact with other real hardware and the physical world. Arduino Cloud also has an internet of things system, which allows you to interact with physical Arduino hardware projects through the Internet.
The only functional overlap between the two services is that both compile the Arduino sketch. One use case for compiling is solely to perform a basic "smoke test" on the validity of the code, without checking the runtime behavior of the compiled program. If you are compiling sketches in Wokwi for that purpose, you could indeed use Arduino Cloud for the same purpose.
Arduino Cloud does not have code completion. If you want that feature, I recommend using the free open source Arduino IDE:
