Video URL = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRVwGGtVZQ

With my Arduino Uno R4 Wifi now connected to the Internet, the next step is to get it connected and receiving commands from my Adafruit.io dashboard.

The code for this is here:

https://github.com/directorcia/Azure/blob/master/Iot/Arduino%20Uno%20R4%20Wifi/Adafruit-IO/main.cpp

and as you can see from the video is now working. Thus, when I push a number on the Adafruit.io dashboard it is communicated down to the Arduino Uno R4 and displayed on the matrix.

The interesting thing is that I ma now ‘vibe’ coding solutions with Github Copilot. This means I am not writing the code by hand any more. I tell Copilot what I want it to so and allow it to generate the code for me. This saves me SO MUCH time as I am not an experienced C developer and all I want is to get my project working as fast as possible.

However, this ‘vibe’ coding approach still presents challenges. When I started out with thsi project the code Copilot developed for me used a HTTP connect to Adafruit.io dashboard which ended up being far too slow. I didn’t notice that fact unit a little ways into this. At that pont I had Copilot redo the code and only use MQTT, whcih now works athe speed expected.

‘Vibe’ coding is such a time saver for me with these projects and help me sort out issues faster that I could without it. However, the lesson here is that you need to understand what you are trying to achieve and help the AI understand as well.