Arduino 1.0. New revision

This new version has came up with lots of changes, in the official web page, there are divided into four types, we are going to summaries a bit all three different changes.

Left: Arduino 1.0, Right: Arduino 0023. Both of them comipiling a program

Environment changes (almost can be seen in th photo)

* The file extension for sketches has changed from .pde to .ino.

* The toolbar icons has been changed.

* There’s a new color scheme and about image for the IDE (by ToDo.to.it).

* The name of the currently selected board and serial port are now shown
at the bottom of the editor. (Code from Wiring.)

* A progress bar is displayed during compilation and upload. (from Wiring.)

Libraries changes


* Serial transmission is now asynchronous

* The behavior of Serial.print() on a byte has been changed

* The SoftwareSerial class has been reimplemented, using the code originally

* Support has been added for printing strings stored in flash

* Support for DHCP and DNS has been added to the Ethernet library,

* The Wire library has also been modified to use the standard read() and
write() functions instead of send() and receive().

* The SD library now supports multiple simultaneous open files.

Boards changes.


* Added the Arduino Mini w/ ATmega328.

* Added Windows for the revised 3 boards (Uno, Mega, and Mega ADK).

Via:Arduino Official Web page

All the new features can be seen here

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