arduino/arduino-cli-example

This repository is a companion to a blog post on Arduino's engineering blog about using Arduino tools in GitHub workflows. Its sole purpose is to provide example code that demonstrates how to automate Arduino tasks using GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a tool that runs tasks automatically when something happens in a code repository, like when someone saves new code. Normally, if you write code for an Arduino board, you might open the Arduino desktop app and click a button to check that the code works or upload it to a physical board. This example shows how to set things up so that GitHub does some of that checking for you automatically, in the cloud, every time you update your code. The people who would use this are hobbyists, students, or product teams writing software for Arduino hardware who want to catch mistakes early. For example, if you are building a DIY weather station or a custom hardware gadget and multiple people are writing the code, you can use this approach to automatically verify that new changes compile correctly before they are merged into the main project. The README is very brief and does not go into detail about the specific setup or what the example code does. It simply points readers to the linked blog post for the full explanation. Because it is purely an example project, it has a narrow scope and is meant to be read alongside the blog post rather than used as a standalone tool.