WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:05.610 Before we go further, there are some improvements that you can do to get a better experience when using 00:05.610 --> 00:06.660 the Arduino IDE. 00:07.140 --> 00:09.300 So first you will open the Arduino ID. 00:09.570 --> 00:15.630 So just click on the desktop shortcut or search from the Windows bar. 00:18.850 --> 00:21.700 If you have this, you can just click on that icon to remove it. 00:21.850 --> 00:25.720 And here I'm going to make actually two different paths for this video. 00:25.750 --> 00:29.860 One path is for the original ID version two. 00:30.310 --> 00:34.530 So that's the new one and another path for the version ID version one. 00:34.540 --> 00:35.650 So the old one. 00:35.650 --> 00:38.340 But that's actually still working completely fine. 00:38.350 --> 00:44.350 And how to find the version where you can just see here on the top you should have something like Arduino 00:44.350 --> 00:47.170 ID and then two point something. 00:47.170 --> 00:49.030 Well, the other numbers don't really matter. 00:49.060 --> 00:52.210 Just make sure that you either have two or one. 00:52.480 --> 00:54.100 If it's two, you have version two. 00:54.130 --> 00:55.780 If it's one, you have version one. 00:55.780 --> 01:02.110 And here you can see the timestamps to see which part of the video you should follow for customizing 01:02.110 --> 01:03.130 the Arduino ID. 01:05.090 --> 01:09.950 So what we can do here, we can click on file and then preferences. 01:10.770 --> 01:12.750 And here what you will be able to change. 01:12.750 --> 01:16.380 I would say the most important setting is this edit of font size. 01:16.740 --> 01:20.250 So you have the font size, that's the size of the text. 01:20.400 --> 01:23.550 It's 14 here for me by default. 01:23.550 --> 01:29.040 And let's put to 18, for example, and you can see that the text now the code is bigger. 01:29.070 --> 01:32.460 You also have the lines on the side, which is quite convenient. 01:32.670 --> 01:33.990 So make sure that you have a size. 01:33.990 --> 01:37.620 That's actually something you can easily read on your screen. 01:37.710 --> 01:43.860 Okay, It's nice to have a lot of text on the screen, but it's actually better to be able to read easily 01:43.860 --> 01:48.750 what you have on the screen without having to use your eyes too much because you're going to spend a 01:48.750 --> 01:49.950 lot of time on the screen. 01:49.950 --> 01:53.190 So make sure that you have a font size that makes you comfortable. 01:53.490 --> 01:59.610 Then for the font family, well, the one that's by default here in the Arduino version two is actually 01:59.610 --> 01:59.910 fine. 01:59.910 --> 02:01.200 So we're going to keep this one. 02:01.620 --> 02:03.720 So you just need to change one thing. 02:03.720 --> 02:05.430 You need to change the font size. 02:05.430 --> 02:10.140 So by default is going to be this and you can increase it if you want or not. 02:10.140 --> 02:15.780 And then if you want to also increase the size of everything, you can go to preferences again and you 02:15.780 --> 02:17.010 can just enter. 02:17.010 --> 02:18.540 So you have the interface scale here. 02:18.540 --> 02:23.100 You can just increase this for example, and you can see that every thing. 02:23.100 --> 02:25.410 So the size of everything is increased. 02:25.410 --> 02:28.170 So that can also be more convenient for you. 02:28.170 --> 02:34.500 One more thing also that you have on the Arduino version two, and that is easily available, not for 02:34.500 --> 02:35.100 the version one. 02:35.100 --> 02:40.080 So I'm just going to do this for the version two is you have the theme here, the light theme, but 02:40.080 --> 02:44.430 you can also choose a dark, for example, the dark theme, this one. 02:44.760 --> 02:48.750 And you can see you have a dark theme that will be easier on the eyes. 02:49.050 --> 02:56.640 So if you want, you can use this theme, the dark theme, and I'm going to keep using the light theme 02:56.640 --> 02:57.570 for this course. 02:57.600 --> 02:58.140 All right. 02:58.140 --> 03:03.450 And with this setup, so not much to do, you are good to go with the version two of the Arduino IDE. 03:03.570 --> 03:10.920 You can skip the rest of the video unless you are using instead the version one of the Arduino IDE. 03:13.230 --> 03:17.070 So first open the original ID and you might notice. 03:17.070 --> 03:22.020 Then the text may be quite small for you to read. 03:22.320 --> 03:27.870 And when you program, it's actually better to be comfortable with the size of text. 03:28.350 --> 03:38.100 So what you can do first is price control or command and use the scroll of the mouse to zoom in and 03:38.100 --> 03:38.820 zoom out. 03:39.000 --> 03:45.120 And this way you can actually make the size of the text bigger. 03:45.750 --> 03:54.360 If you want a more permanent solution, you can go here on file, open preferences, and here you can 03:54.360 --> 03:55.860 see the font size. 03:55.860 --> 04:04.020 So 15 was the one I just have here with the zoom with the mouse and you can choose any font you want. 04:04.350 --> 04:14.720 I'm going to put 18, for example, and I'm going also to scale in the face a little bit to 130%. 04:14.730 --> 04:16.110 You don't need to change that. 04:16.110 --> 04:16.360 Okay. 04:16.380 --> 04:21.300 This will make, for example, the green buttons here bigger. 04:21.420 --> 04:28.770 But what you can do is keep this automatic and change the font size with something that you are comfortable 04:28.770 --> 04:29.220 with. 04:29.610 --> 04:33.650 It may be 18, it may be 16 or it may be 22. 04:33.660 --> 04:35.740 Whatever makes you more comfortable. 04:35.760 --> 04:38.190 I'm going to click on okay. 04:38.640 --> 04:42.150 And actually, I'm going to restart the adenoid. 04:47.800 --> 04:50.530 Okay, so now it's actually much better. 04:50.950 --> 04:55.900 One thing we can do also is we go back to preferences. 04:55.990 --> 04:58.180 We can put line number. 04:58.180 --> 05:02.560 So display line number, you can check this option click on. 05:02.560 --> 05:03.100 Okay. 05:03.100 --> 05:05.380 And now you have the line numbers here. 05:05.410 --> 05:11.110 This will make it easier for you when you need to communicate with other people about your code. 05:11.350 --> 05:15.680 And your other program will be a little bit more readable. 05:15.700 --> 05:23.140 And now the last thing I'm going to do is to actually change the font for the text, because as you 05:23.140 --> 05:29.400 can see, maybe the font here is not the best one for readability purpose. 05:29.410 --> 05:37.270 So what I'm going to do is go on file preferences again, and here you can directly change the font 05:37.450 --> 05:38.950 on this menu. 05:38.950 --> 05:41.890 You need to go to this file here. 05:41.890 --> 05:46.030 So on the bottom you should have a file this will you click on this? 05:46.030 --> 05:54.760 This will open a new file manager and what I'm going to do so I'm going to close the Arduino ID now 05:54.760 --> 06:01.030 we are on this file manager here and I'm going to click on preferences that txt. 06:01.030 --> 06:05.350 So I'm going to open it and I'm going to search for font. 06:05.350 --> 06:10.330 So a little dot font here we just found it. 06:10.330 --> 06:15.340 And the font, the basic one is mono spaced here on windows. 06:15.610 --> 06:18.640 And then you have, as you can see, the size of the font. 06:18.640 --> 06:24.490 And what I'm going to do is I'm going to change mono spaced to console us. 06:24.490 --> 06:27.970 So console us. 06:28.330 --> 06:30.160 This will be the font I will use. 06:30.160 --> 06:33.700 And if you want, you can also change and see if it's better for you. 06:33.880 --> 06:35.950 And it's very important. 06:35.980 --> 06:42.110 Note that you should first quit the Arduino IDE and then edits the file. 06:42.310 --> 06:50.860 Don't edit the file while the Arduino ID is still running so I can save the file, save preferences 06:50.860 --> 06:55.810 the txt and now I can start Arduino again. 06:56.170 --> 07:02.530 And as you can see, the font here is actually better for readability. 07:02.950 --> 07:04.480 And one quick note here. 07:04.660 --> 07:10.690 Actually, here you can see the font and then plain you may want to change it to bold, but actually 07:10.690 --> 07:17.680 this option doesn't work for now with the albino ID, so you can just change the font here and then 07:17.680 --> 07:18.910 the size. 07:19.150 --> 07:19.690 All right. 07:19.690 --> 07:23.380 With this setup, you are good to go in the following of the course. 07:23.380 --> 07:30.970 At some point I will come back to the different options and tools you can get with the Arduino IDE and 07:30.970 --> 07:32.980 you will learn how to use them properly.