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

As of this writing, the latest version is v1.8.8, which you can download from https://www.arduino.cc/download_handler.php?f=/arduino-1.8.8-macosx.zip

2. Double-click "arduino-1.8.x-macos.zip" to uncompress the Arduino IDE.

3. Move Arduino.app from your Downloads folder to your Applications folder.

4. Double-click on Arduino.app to start it.

Next step: Add keyboard support to Arduino