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If you are completely new to mbed, the best place is to start on the handbook Homepage. Take the tour to get a quick overview of what mbed is all about, and then you can follow the rest of the Getting Started guides.
You can get answers to most common questions by Searching the mbed website.
The most common questions and answers can be found on FAQs
Places you may find answers to your questions:
If you can't find the answer you're looking for, please don't hesitate to post in the appropriate part of the Forum. mbed users are a friendly bunch and will be pleased to help you.
A good way to get help with a piece of code that's not working for you is to Publish the program. To do this, right click the program in the Compiler and choose Publish. Include the URL returned in your post.
This way users can very easily check over your complete program and therefore help you better.
For example: suggestions for improved functionality, or if something isn't working quite as you think it should.
First, check to see if the problem is already being addressed on the issue tracker wiki page
If you don't see your problem there or want to discuss your problem, you are very welcome to post in the Bugs and Suggestions forum.
Finally, if you have an urgent problem or wish to discuss something privately, please email support@mbed.org
mbed is all about making rapid protyping easy and fun. To do this, we need to help each other. Ways to contribute back to the community include:
If you have something to add, or can help answer a question, please do. Remember your answer will be preserved and will be useful to many more people who read the forum topic later.
If you have got a new component working or would like to share your knowledge on a topic, please start a cookbook page on the topic. Don't worry about it being perfect from the beginning, just try and get the facts down. Example published programs or diagrams are great, too.
Examples of good cookbook pages:
If you see a cookbook page which could do with improvement, dive in and fix it!
If you would like to write about a project you are working on or would simply like to share your working notes, create a Notebook page.
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Do you have an application note on how build projects with a local (non-web based) compiler?
The hardware is nice, but I do not trust placing my development code on the web.