I've been (slowly) experimenting with the Arduino and took considerable time to work out the environment and create libraries compatible with Visual Studio 2012.
You can find Visual Studio projects in the Libraries directory for the following:
- The AVR LibC, containing the basic C framework (i.e. stdio, stdlib, math, etc.)
- The Low Level Arduino library, containing the interfacing helpers
- The Core Arduino library, containing the Arduino board framework and basic functions/helpers
- The Pom Library, containing advanced helpers I required along my work. Quite empty at the moment, but will keep growing.
You can also find the basic Arduino lessons (the most complex ones at least, I didn't bother with the simple ones) in the form of Visual Studio projects:
- LED Blink
- Keypad
- Temperature Sensor
- Joystick
- Infra-Red Sensor
- LED Matrix
- RFID Sensor
- etc.
I kept interesting notes to quickly remember the subtleties of the Arduino dialect and environment.
Maybe of interest to you:
- How to add your custom C/C++ library to the core library
- How to easily compile you C files into assembly language (i.e. making the GCC compiler generate a .S file that you can later modify)
I played a bit with the Radio-Frequency chip CC1101 by Texas Instrument, I rewrote the driver and kind of managed to drive it correctly except at the moment I never quite could receive anything.
I'll try again with another RF device, the nRF24L01 this time.