Using Arduino* IDE for Windows* with the Intel® IoT Developer Kit

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Introduction

This document shows you how to use the Arduino IDE along with the Intel® IoT Developer Kit (dev kit) tools. While the dev kit offers several extras in the way of libraries and tools, you can use the Arduino IDE without it; just follow this link. However, if you want to use your Intel® Galileo board and the Arduino IDE and take advantage of the dev kit, as well as use your board as a USB storage device please continue reading.

Installing the dev kit serial driver

Intel Galileo provides serial as well as a mass storage device over USB. The serial connection is required when using Intel Galileo within the Arduino IDE. Mass storage makes it easy to share files between the Windows host and the Intel Galileo target system. As Windows doesn’t auto-install the appropriate driver, you’ll conveniently find the correct driver on the SD card in the "window-driver" folder. Right click to install this driver as depicted in Figure 1.

Now open the device manager:

In Windows 7 and earlier:

• At a command prompt, in the Start Search box or in the Run box, type the following command: "mmc devmgmt.msc".

In Windows 8+:

• Click "Windows" + X and select "Device Manager".

You should find a "CDC Serial" device under "Other Devices". Right click Update Driver Software.

In the next window select "Browse my computer for driver software".

Now enter the folder where you downloaded the driver and select "Next".

Then click on "Install" as depicted below

After that you will find the new "COM" device "Intel IoT Dev Kit Serial" and you’ll find Intel Galileo as a new mass storage device in Windows Explorer.

Install Arduino

Now, you only need to install the Arduino IDE for the Intel Galileo. To do that, please follow the steps in this document.