Question about Firmata

Hi all,

I am going to be purchasing an Arduino USB board, but I have a quick question first. The Firmata project really interests me; it looks like the perfect way to directly interface my PC to the controller. However, I have seen it described as a "replacement firmware." Before I buy my Arduino, I'd like to know if I need one of those special serialport/parallelport/icsp header dongle thingys to upload Firmata to my board, or if I can just use USB to load it like any other program.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Dylan

You can load it over USB like any other sketch.

Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted to know ;D