All Arduino today
- Search for Arduino on your computer and open the application.
- Connect your Arduino to your computer using USB
- Using the Arduino app, click on File, Examples, Basic and choose the sketch named Blink
- Click on the arrow
at the top of the Arduino sketch to send Blink to your Arduino board. - IF you get an error message like the one below you have to choose a different connection from the drop-down menu.
- IF you connect to your Arduino then see if the small LED light blinks on the board.
- Once you are connected and have a blinking light, it’s time to change the code. Change the delay(1000) value – that’s the number – to a different value.
What happens if you make the value larger or smaller? What if you copy/paste the portion of code that starts with digitalWrite over and over? How does the blinking change?
Once everyone has a connection with their board we will
-connect an LED to pin 13
-connect the breadboard to your Arduino
-add a resistor and LED to your breadboard
-make it BLINK
-add more LEDs and control them