Getting Started with Arduino

Posted by : x Tuesday, April 8, 2014

This tutorial is a beginners guide to setting up Arduino development environment. We will be using Arduino Uno for this project. To follow the official getting started with Arduino tutorial click here.

Getting the hardware: You can obtain the Arduino board from the official store or through Amazon, and also other vendors.
Getting the software: Download the required software (development environment) to program the Arduino board. The supported operating system as of now are Windows, Linux and MacOS.
Connecting to Arduino: After installing the software,
1. Connect the Arduino board to the computer with the provided USB cable.
2. Now go to Tools>Board and select Arduino Uno.
3. In the Tools>Serial Port select the associated COM port.(You can find this by unplugging the USB cable. The COM port that disappeared is the one.)
Uploading your first program: Several example scripts are provided. For this tutorial we will be using a simple script that makes the LED 13 on the board blink.
1. Go to File>Examples>1.Basics and open ‘Blink’. This will load the Blink script.
2. Now click ‘Upload’ button on the development environment.
3. If uploading is successful than you should see LED 13 blinking. If it failed make sure that the Arduino is connected and associated COM port is selected.