Obtaining and flashing firmware
Microcontrollers do not directly understand human-readable code. The firmware code is written in the C language by the programmer. This needs to be converted to a binary format that can be understood by the Particle microcontrollers. A program called a compiler does this conversion.
A local setup is required to be able to work with firmware. Such a setup provides you with all the software and packages needed to compile and deploy the firmware.
Flashing firmware involves two main steps:
- Obtaining firmware.
- Burning firmware onto the device.
Obtaining firmware
To be able to flash a firmware, we need to get the firmware file in binary format. There are two ways you can obtain the firmware:
- Direct download
- Building from source ...
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