Install Arduino IDE on Chromebook

After turning on Linux on the Chromebook, you can access the Linux environment via the terminal app.

Please follow the following steps to install the Arduino IDE:

Check the type of your OS version

Download package

Open the website (www.arduino.cc/en/software) and download the corresponding type of Legacy Arduino IDE:

Installation

After downloading complete, set the folder Downloads in the file browser to share with Linux, as mentioned above. Use the following commands to install the Arduino IDE, e.g., arduino-1.8.19-linux64.tar.xz is the downloading file.

cd /mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/Downloads/
sudo apt-get install xz-utils
sudo tar -C /opt -xf arduino-1.8.19-linux64.tar.xz
cd /opt
ls
cd arduino-1.8.19/
ls
sudo ./install.sh

Set up the Arduino IDE development environment for the mainboard

You can open the Arduino IDE as follows:

After using the USB data cable to connect the BiBoard and Chromebook, you will see a prompt: Please click Connect to Linux.

and check in the Settings interface, and it should be enabled as follows:

Use the following commands to install the library pyserial for uploading the sketch for BiBoard

sudo apt install python3 pip
python3 -V
pip -V
cd /usr/lib/python3.11/
sudo rm EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
sudo pip3 install pyserial
pip list

After downloading the project file OpenCatEsp32-main.zip from GitHub: https://github.com/PetoiCamp/OpenCatEsp32, use the following commands to unzip it to the Downloads folder.

cd /mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/Downloads/
sudo apt-get install unzip
unzip OpenCatEsp32-main.zip

For how to upload the sketch, please refer to Upload Sketch for BiBoard.