Install Arduino support on a Mac

The Arduino system has been designed to be accessible to people at all skill levels, and Keyboardio is built on top of the Arduino platform because we share that goal. There are many ways to set up your system to work with the Keyboardio firmware, the most typical is to use the Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE); an application that gives some visual context to the code you want to send to your Arduino device. This is the easiest process for folks who are new to Arduino, or to programming generally. If you follow the instructions below step by step you should be fine. :-)

Step One: Set up the Arduino IDE

1. Download the Arduino IDE install package from:

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

2. Click on your operating system name to download the correct version.

Note: This tutorial has been written using the Mac version.

3. Install the Arduino IDE. On a mac the application is called "Arduino.app". You probably want to put it in your Applications directory.

Step Two: Install support for your keyboard into the IDE

1. Open the Arduino IDE. It will open a default sketch; just ignore that (if you close the default sketch window the application will close.)

2. Open the “Arduino” menu and click on “Preferences”

3. At the bottom of the "Settings" tab is the 'Additional Board Manager URLs' box. Paste this into it: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keyboardio/boardsmanager/master/package_keyboardio_index.json then click ‘OK’ to close the dialog

4. Go into the ‘Tools’ menu, click on ‘Board’ and then click on ‘Boards Manager’

5. Enter ‘Keyboardio’ into the search box. You will see an entry that says "keyboardio by Keyboardio" click on it to select it, and then click ‘Install’. Once the install completes, click "Close".

6. Go into the ‘Tools’ menu again, click on ‘Board’ and then click on ‘Keyboardio Model 01’ – You may have to scroll through a long list of other boards to get there.

7. Go into the Tools menu again, and scroll down to "Port > ". Select your keyboard. (It may already be selected.)

Next step: Install the latest firmware on your keyboard