Hi all, newbie here looking forward to receiving an arduino starter kit at Xmas so I can have a play.
As the kit comes in a storage box, I was wondering if it's possible to install the developers environment onto a USB stick, and run it from there. That way I'm not tied to a single PC and the whole setup becomes portable (between PCs, obviously).
I realize I'll need to stick to a single os (probably windows in my case) and probably keep drivers on the USB stick too - but could this work? Has anyone tried it?
I don't see why not. I run various versions of the IDE from different folders, and a USB stick would be similar to that. The drivers are part of the IDE folder, you would need to actually install the USB drivers onto those computers that needed them, and didn't have them yet.
Thanks Nick! Sounds like a plan then. For some reason having the whole lot portable appeals.
My only concern was whether having both the developers environment and the arduino connected to a PC by USB causes problems when uploading code. Guess there's only one way to find out.
About how much space do I need for the developers environment? I'm guessing the project sketches won't take up too much room
Retrolefty: yup, might need to explore what hubs work reliably :-). Moving between windows & Linux would be good but I think I should be at least a little realistic with my ambitions. Got electronics & arduino to learn first!
... I'm guessing that the PATH environmental will need changing (overriding) by a CMD/BAT file located on the flash medium. The commandline environment on my XP box is:
Ray - many thanks. The technical details of your answer escape me, but to summarise I won't try this straight away! Thanks for saving me additional and unnecessary agro when I'm first learning my way around the system.
