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+Arduino IO Interface Board for EIVE
+======
+
+## General Information
+
+This is the software for an Arduino board to set it up as an interface board.
+The interface board will be used to relay commands from a host computer serial
+interface to connected I2C or SPI sensors. This allows device handler testing 
+on a host machine. The software can either be compiled and programmed on the Arduino withmake and avrdude, provided the AVR GCC toolchain is installed, or built and flashed using
+Eclipse with the Sloeber plugin. It is recommended to use Sloeber for enhanced convenience, as it takes care of the building process. It is also integrated into Eclipse, which has a powerful indexer and several other tools to ease development.
+
+## Instructions to build with make
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+1. When compiling on a Windows system, make sure the [Windows Development Tools](https://xpack.github.io/windows-build-tools/install/) are installed and added to the system path.This is required for make to work.
+
+2. Install the [AVR toolchain](https://www.microchip.com/mplab/avr-support/avr-and-arm-toolchains-c-compilers) for your OS
+
+3. If building the binary with make, initiate the contained arduino\_core submodule and the required core contained within that submodule by running
+```sh
+git submodule update --init --recursively
+```
+
+### Build Instructions
+
+1. Run following command to build the software
+
+```sh
+make all -j
+```
+
+2. Run following command to clean up the directories
+
+```sh
+make clean -j
+```
+
+## Instructions build with Sloeber
+
+
+
+
+