mbed tools - Tips and Tricks

mbed tools work across a diverse set of operating system and web-browsers. While the community and IDE will remain common across browsers and operating systems how you access the platform can vary. Here are some tips and tricks for using mbed on different systems.

Browsers

• make your browser ask you where to save a file.
  • when a binary is generated from the hosted compiler you can save directly to the MBED drive!
  • If you want a backup of the binary file, just re-compile and save elsewhere. The OS should remember the last place a file was downloaded

• Browsers are not created equally. While you may have a preference, it may be best to use the best performing browser while developing
  • Link to run the browser test
  • Browser speed!

Operating Systems

• Windows
  • Make sure to install the serial driver
  • Link to some tools or scripts that make development better!
  • Command line - your drive can be referenced by the letter (E: and so on)
  • COM Port - this will be a unique number for each platform. Use device manager to find the unique number. Link to scripts that find this automatically

• Linux
  • No driver install necessary
  • Link to tools and scripts
  • Command line - your drive is /Media/MBED
  • COM port is named /dev/ttyACM* where * is a number

• MAC OS
  • No driver install necessary
  • Link to tools and scripts
  • Command line - your drive is /Volumes/MBED
  • COM port is named /dev/tty.usbModem* where * is a number