I received a lot of feedbacks after PlatformIO had been released. Some people have been asking me the interesting questions, such as:

• How does PlatformIO differ from ‘make’?
• Where do the actual build platforms come from?

Also I’ve received valuable answers and wishes  from the “LinkedIn Professionals” (here and here). Most of them like to work with an IDE and preferably Eclipse IDE.   As PlatformIO is a console tool with rich commands interface it can work with different IDEs as the “builder, uploader & debugger”.

Today I want to explain how we can build and debug Atmel AVR (Arduino) based project using Eclipse IDE + PlatformIO.

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