Electronics

Arduino programs are developed with a software and this software is downloaded from the http://arduino.cc site.

Why: It's an easy and fun example to introduce you to Arduino

How: Presenting questions and trying answer this questions. Experimenting with different tasks.

What: We would like to show you how to control a diode. We would build a device and write programs for this device.

End Result: A blinking diode

To correctly upload the blinking diode program to the controller we must first check some of the configurations of software. These are the "selected controller" and COM port

Developing a program for the Arduino is very easy. We need to do again three thigs:

As a result from the previous two videos we have a diode that is blinking. What will now happen with the diode if we remove the power and change the position of the legs.

In this episode we would modify the blinking diode program so that the diode will stay on for four seconds. 

For making the diode blink we just use one of the examples available in the Arduino Software. 

You have the controller, you have the diode. The controller has a number of pins (holes). Where should you put the diode so that it starts blinking? 

The small holes on the controller are called pins. On our controller we have 32 pins. The more pins that you have, the more elements you can controller with this microcontroller. For this video the interesting pins and 13 and GND

For the current specific example we need two parts - the diode and the controller. In this episode we would show you which part is the controller, which are the jumpers and finally we would choose a diode.