Published January 15, 2020 © GPL3+

Teensy Setup and Debugging

Get your Teensy Setup for Arduino, and start using the Serial debugger in Visual Micro straight away to solve those last few code issues....

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Teensy 3.6

(Or any Teensy Board)

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

Visual Micro

PJRC Teensyduino Installer

Story

Installing the Teensy boards isn't available via boards manager at the moment, and the below guide will get you setup in minutes.

Once we're setup we can get some code uploaded, and use some Debugging Tools to help us with our Arduino project development in Visual Studio with Visual Micro.

Software Setup

We assume that you have already installed the Arduino IDE on your machine (if not download here).

Adding the Teensyduino components:-

Download the Windows package from PJRC here

Run the Installer and follow the on-screen prompts (also captioned below), ensuring you install it into the same Arduino IDE location you are using in Visual Micro:

1 / 7 • Check your Arduino IDE installation before starting (vMicro > General > Configure Arduino IDE Locations)

This is all that's needed to make the Teensy boards and tools available to Arduino, and Visual Micro.

Hardware Setup

Just connect your Teensy board to your PC using the USB cable provided, any drivers needed were installed by the installer in the previous step.

Lets Code

Now we can get our first sketch uploaded onto our board;-

Open an existing or New project in Visual Micro

Select the boards list and locate your Teensy of choice.

All Teensy boards should be available to select in the boards list for Arduino IDE

Ensure on the Board Options the the "USB Type: Serial" option is set.

Ensure USB Type is set to Serial

Now simply Build & Upload the code to your board

NOTE - you will see a window pop up during the process whichwill perform the upload. Once this is done this window can be closed.

Reboot shows the upload has finished

Thats it! Your code should now have been uploaded to your board.

Debugging the Code

The next challenge to simplify, is what to do when you have a problem with your program which you cant figure out... this is where the Serial Debugger allows you to monitor your code closely and control its execution as it runs...

Here we will need to select the "Debug: Serial" mode in Visual Micro

Then add Breakpoints where you want to stop in your code, by clicking in the left margin (more breakpoint help).

An example break point added in our sketch by clicking where the red dot is..

You can also trace variables by setting Actions when a breakpoint is hit.

Simply Build and Upload and the Serial Debugger will start automatically.

NOTE - If you change breakpoint positions or actions then the sketch will need to be re-uploaded to the board

Now you have your board debugging and working, you can also calibrate sensors, and plot graphs of your data / readings with literally only a few steps, using the Serial Debugger.

Full Video Walkthrough

Hopefullyitallmadesense,but having a video to follow through is always useful:

A Video Walkthrough of this guide

Find Out More

Visual Micro Website

Serial Debugger Walkthrough

PJRC Website

Code

byte state = 0;
long counter = 0;

// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {

	Serial.begin(115200);
	pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again until power down or reset
void loop() {
	Serial.println("Loop()");
	digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, state);
	counter++;
	state = sumOf(state, 1); // Function in another INO
	state = state % 2;
	delay(1000);
}

Credits

arduinocc

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Teensy Setup and Debugging

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Software Setup

Hardware Setup

Lets Code

Debugging the Code

Full Video Walkthrough

Find Out More

Schematics

Teensyduino Board

Code

Projectname.ino

Calcs.ino

Credits

arduinocc

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Teensy Setup and Debugging

Teensy Setup and Debugging

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Software Setup

Hardware Setup

Lets Code

Debugging the Code

Full Video Walkthrough

Find Out More

Schematics

Teensyduino Board

Code

Projectname.ino

Calcs.ino

Credits

arduinocc

Comments

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