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\nDid you know in the Arduino IDE that you can organize your code using different tabs? In this lesson, you’re gonna learn how to add these tabs, how they get organized in the Arduino sketch folder and how to use them in order to better...\nDid you know in the Arduino IDE that you can organize your code using different tabs? In this lesson, you’re gonna learn how to add these tabs, how they get organized in the Arduino sketch folder and how to use them in order to better organize your code. Stay tuned. Before we get started, if you wouldn’t mind subscribing to the channel, it really helps us bring you the best content. It doesn’t cost you anything but a click and it allows us to keep doing this. All right, so here we are in the Arduino IDE. I’ve got a program open. It’s called Tabbatha and I have got a sketch written out. So, let me just familiarize you with the sketch so you kind of get an idea what’s going on. So I’ve got some neopixels. Those are individually addressable LEDs. It’s like an individually addressable LED strip. You’ve probably seen ’em around. Really cool looking. And I’ve using this library called fastLED to control them. And I’ve got some variables here that set up the number of pins and which data pin I’m using and and a array to store the different LEDs that I’m in. Okay, and then I have some functions that do some different things. So one is setting them all the LEDs red. Then one sets ’em all blue, one sets ’em all green but it uses this little fadeall function in here that kind of makes it interesting. And I also have that function right here, fadeall. So I’ve got four functions and then below that I have my setup in my loop. So in setup, you know just start serial communication and then I’m just initializing some stuff for that fastLED library. Nothing crazy going on in setup. And then loop, all I’m doing is I’m calling these three functions: setRed, setBlue and setGreen. Okay, so what I wanna do is I wanna you know there’s a lot kind of, I don’t know, going on in here. Maybe I wanna like reduce the clutter in here and let’s say I wanna put each one of these functions in its own file, in its own tab. All right, so all of the files that you create in Arduino are gonna live in the Arduino Sketchbook folder. And you can figure out where your Sketchbook folder is by going to if you’re on a Mac, you’d go to Arduino Preferences or if you’re on a PC, I think it’s File Preferences. And the first thing they show is your Sketchbook location. So the location of my Sketchbook folder is under my name, my documents, and then in a folder Arduino. And then I have saved Tabbatha somewhere inside this folder. So I’m gonna go ahead and open that up. All right, so here is the folder Tabbatha and you’ll notice I’ve got a .eno file inside here. Okay, so Tabbatha is the name of the folder and Tabbatha.eno is this file right here. So the way Arduino saves your sketches is is it creates a folder with the same name as the .eno file in here. That’s like how the folder structure works. That’s how the program stores and organizes the code. Okay, so what I’m gonna do is I am gonna add a tab up here and I’m gonna put this function setRed inside of this tab. So all I do is I come up over here.\n
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