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Documentation is information on aspects of software or hardware, including its intended purpose, functionality, and maintenance. Documentation can exist in many different forms and formats, but its aim is always to educate.

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How to document a custom library in Arduino

I have created my own library and it is working flawlessly. Now I want to add some documentation to it that the Arduino IDE can understand. For the functions from the Arduino IDE itself like delay(ms) you can right click them and then select Find in…
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Suggestions for a program for drawing simple schematics

I'm wondering if there are free programs or web sites that let you draw simple schematics similar to this example:
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ESP32-C3 SPI Class documentation/features?

ESP32-C3 has a nice feature called GPIO Matrix which allows to map most of it's peripherals to any GPIO pin. And it has feature called IO_MUX which allows direct & faster operations for some of the high speed peripherals, including SPI. The API from…
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Arduino diagrams

I would like to document some of the experiments I have been doing with the arduino. In many of the internet posts on Arduino projects, they have a similar diagram of the Uno or Mega with breadboards and resistors. Some with more detail than…
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What's the function of this transistor on Arduino Mega?

I am trying to get information about the transistor on the Arduino Mega board below: It says "340P" on the transistor. I want be able to know which model transition is this so that I can check its documentation. It also want to know what it is…
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Where can I find a hardware manual (or documentation) for Arduino Uno & ATMega328P?

Where can I find a hardware manual (documentation or a book) for Arduino board? As far as I know, all hardware details are dispersed (or scatter) in different tutorials.
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Where is the documentation for writing an Arduino core?

I'm interested in writing an "Arduino core" (i. e. porting Arduino to a new MCU and new board(s)). I'm having trouble finding much documentation on how to do so. Am I missing something? This page says "anyone may develop a core for their own…
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Is there some better documentation somewhere for Arduino classes and API's?

For example, it looks like Serial extends HardwareSerial, which extends Stream, which extends Print. But I don't think you can figure this out by reading the reference documentation on https://www.arduino.cc/ and it doesn't appear that you can…
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Can Arduino post multiple sensor data to one Google Spreadsheet?

Let's say I have one MQ5 gas sensor at home and one MQ135 gas sensor at the park. They are wirelessly hooked to Arduino. My questions are: Can Arduino post the data from two or more sensors to one Google Spreadsheet and organize it in two different…
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Connecting Arduino Wifi shield to Arduino Uno based Mcore board

I am trying to connect this mBot board to an external network, that's why I bought the arduino wifi shield. I am connecting the wifi shield to the 6pins (5V MOSI GND RST SCK MISO) of the mCore. Though when uploading any of the Wifi program example,…
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Please help me navigate the stepper motor object definition in the documentation

I am trying to use the stepper library and the stepper object is documented like this This function creates a new instance of the Stepper class that represents a particular stepper motor attached to your Arduino board. Use it at the top of your…
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Why are there no clear types given on the Arduino API docs?

For exmaple, I look at the page for digitalWrite and all I get is this for the signature: digitalWrite(pin, value) No return value type, no paramater type, nothing. Instead, in a seperate section it says Returns Nothing And then it…
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Where is all of the Arduino Documentation?

Aside from the main website, I have noticed that it is hard to find documentation for specific Arduino add-ons, such as (This is just one…
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ESP32 documentaiont for "time.h"

I am working from the example sketch in that installed with the ESP32 Dev Module into the Arduino IDE. It includes and "time.h". I have a number of questions about how to use the clock that is set up with configTime using NTP. I am trying…
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Where is the documentation for the Emoro GLAM pro module?

My 11-year-old son recently brought out an Emoro robot he got for his birthday. We had some temporary confusion with the robot, but got it to work. He is now trying to connect to his computer via Bluetooth from the Emoro, but cannot find any…
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