Feature Request: Support for Other Boards

[rei-vilo]

Although the Arduino IDE supports many boards thanks to the boards packages, some popular boards like Teensy / Teensyduino and Launchpad / Energia are not supported through the Boards Manager because of Arduino incompatibilities.

For example, Launchpad / Energia has committed a pull request, Add build.project_path to global properties #119, but ArduinoCC hasn't answered since February 2016.

[techniq]

I would love to see Teensy supported.

[hsiboy]

+1 for Teensy support, although this may be tricky as currently Teensyduino patches the underlying Arduino (IDE) jars.

[yaohaizh]

This extension is targeting official Arduino IDE compatible board support and it requires Arduino IDE support. So as long the board can be loaded into Arduino IDE via additional URL, we can support the board. Otherwise, it is not the scope of this extension.

[atestani]

There is Arduino IDE board support for the Teensy boards that get installed with Teensyduino supplied by PJRC. You first install the Arduino IDE and then Teensyduino. It is located at /hardware/teensy and there is a board.txt and platform.txt file there plus the core and libraries. It is right alongside he Arduino equivalent.

Except for the proprietary uploader and dedicated bootloader chip on the Teensy boards there is no difference to Arduino. One can create a new "board" in the teensy/board.txt file and use any other uploader (e.g. JTAG or SWD) assuming wires are added to the stock Teensy boards for SWD interface. Later version Teensy boards (e.g. 3.5 and 3.6) have pads for adding such wires

The VS Code Arduino plugin should be able to support the Teensy boards which provide powerful Kinetis ARM processors. Would you please consider adding this to your great plug-in!?

Thanks

[czgtest]

@rei-vilo & @atestani I have not used Teensy as before, can you provide some more detailed about the problems you want us to fix and which feature you want us to add ? Thanks a lot!

[rei-vilo]

@czgtest

Both Teensy and LaunchPad, albeit complying with the Arduino specifications, require some modifications of the original Arduino IDE.

For Teensy, Paul Stoffregen explains on this post the technical reasons for a separate IDE.

On the case of Energia, this is also the case. However, a pull request addressing those issues (see Add build.project_path to global properties #119) is ready since February 2016, but Arduino hasn't answered yet —and two years after, will it consider it? Hence the clear opportunity for Visual Studio Code.

[czgtest]

@rei-vilo this request is very valuable, we will sync with team-mate for it. Thanks a lot.

[rei-vilo]

For Energia, all the source code is available at https://github.com/energia.