Most importantly he gets to be a dad to his daughter Hailey. And, of course, Visual Studio Code, the free open-source code editor that can run on any operating system. Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a collection of tools, cloud services and software trials. Michael is also a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Maryland and holds a Master’s degree in systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Visual Studio Community is a free IDE for developing iOS, Android, Windows and web applications. He also blogs (and occasionally podcasts) at Gears of Resistance, a site dedicated to raising public awareness of technical and scientific matters. is an engineer and security researcher at Green Shoe Garage, a custom electronics design studio located in Southern Maryland. Music is “Computer Control” by Tom Woxom, available at Looking to reach an an engaged audience of embedded professionals and enthusiasts? Advertise with Gears of Resistance and find your audience.

Some of the tools we use:įor more tech news and how-to’s check out our YouTube Channel. We also look at how to put our code under source code control using GitHub. If you use Visual Micro to extend Visual Studio so it can build for the Arduino, you can configure Visual Assist to recognize your Arduino source as C/C++. Visual Studio is an excelent tool for creating AVR (Arduino and Native) applications for the ATMEGA328 chips etc. In this video, we look at jumping up from the standard Arduino IDE and take a stab at programming use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 and third-party extension Visual Micro.

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