I Made A Lightweight Terminal Interface for Arduino – So You Don’t Have to Build One Yourself!

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I’ve developed a lightweight terminal interface for Arduino, along with a built-in command parser system, and I wanted to share it here as well.

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If you’re tired of constantly recompiling and uploading your code just to tweak a few parameters, this solution might be exactly what you need. With this interface, you can interact with your system in real-time, making adjustments on the fly without restarting or modifying the firmware.

I also put together a short tutorial video to showcase its capabilities—hopefully, some of you will find it useful!

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I recommend Teraterm or PuTTY on Windoze, or GTKTerm on linux to interactively change parameters of code running on an Arduino.

The Arduino serial monitor works too, but can't log data to a file.

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Looks interesting, I will give it a try when I get some time. Thanks for sharing!

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I remember trying to get people to use terminals not in the IDE here.. around 10 years ago. Since then I occasionally ask Arduino to add one to the IDE without result.

Good Luck