The Arduino IDE isn’t the greatest.
It lacks a number of features programmers come to expect from an editor.
It’s also makes it hard to unit test your code.
Chris McClellan is a software Craftsman at Pillar Technology who has been working to solve some of these problems.
This month we’ll test drive a LED driver and, in the process, learn about the AVR microcontrollers and tool chain that Arduino is built on top of.