Here are the various ways you, your company or organisation can begin to contribute to and engage with mbed and the mbed community.

Write a library for your hardware component or service¶

Adding your library to mbed will allow users to quickly integrate your product into their product. It also provides a place where users can ask questions about your product or post any issues they have with your library.

The API of a library can be documented using doxygen syntax, this will be displayed on the library’s page on the website and is also visible with mbed’s online IDE, this makes developing with your library even easier for the mbed community. See Writing a library

Write a hello world example for your product¶

A hello world is a concise program showing how a library is used; it should be easy to read and contain comments where appropriate. It doesn’t need to demonstrate every feature of a library but should give the reader a feel for how it works.

Add your products to the components database¶

The Components database is a place where the hardware and software components that make up an mbed based project can live. You should consider adding a component for your product. Currently components are maintained by the community but in the future we will allow partners to own their components so they can maintain them themselves.

A good component page should contain a picture, a hello world and a library to allow mbed users to quickly see what they’re looking at, have an overview of how it is used and see the library that will allow them to integrate it into their project.

Answer (and ask) questions¶

The components page has a questions area specific to it, as do the pages for published library or program repositories. Questions can be marked as having an accepted answer by the user that posted the question. Over time this can produce a searchable knowledge base about your components and repositories that users can use as a reference in the future.

Become a partner¶

If you are a company or organisation that can work with mbed to help enable your technology for developers, you should talk to us about becoming an mbed Partner .