"Hello Arduino!"

In this video-cast, Steven demonstrates basic Arduino skills for newbies (and he's one of them). In this video, Steven un-boxes the Arduino Starter Pack from Adafruit Industries. Learn more at:

http://www.giveusoneminute.com/archives/whats-this-arduino-thingy-i-keep-hear...

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Howto & Style

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• guom
• giveusoneminute
• arduino
• microcontroller
• electronics

[joebro391]

Great vid man, really appreciate the help, as i dwell into the world of arduino. and i'm pretty sure the end was SOS. -Joe

[stevencombs]

Thanks JoeBro!

[Godboy245]

This is really cool, Steven. Thanks for the videos.

[stevencombs]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed them. They're fun to do and a great resource for my students.

[coondogtheman1234]

so Steve what is the purpose of this board? does it do anything useful

[stevencombs]

It's only limited by your imagination. Do a quick Google search for Arduino and check out all the cool projects.

[reeferdk]

int ledPin = 13;

Does NOT INITALIZE the pin, it just creates an integer variable (which is later used to set the pin state, could be done without the var)..

Besides from that the video is OK...

[tehuglyscientist]

SOS

[DactaDork]

Am I the one arduino person on earth who uses Xubuntu?

[SeuPay]

Thanks for this video.

Two suggestions:

-(Software) Better to use " #define ledPin 13 ", it instruct the compiler to replace the word "ledPin" with "13" instead of creating the variable ledPin inside the microcontroller (a memory location never used by the program ).

-(Hardware) Using a LED connected between pin 13 and Ground is stressing the

Microcontroller output driver. The LED can withstand more than 40 milliamps and will survive. A resistor in serie with the LED will help (240~1000 ohms).

[3dSorcery]

@Knightmetal Haha that was my first thought too, then I saw your comment :) hahaha

[Knightmetal]

Hey man, you look like Joe Satriani.

[whitt38]

sos

[Anthony96922]

to make the led flash differently you change the code a litthe bit. Change 1000 to 100, 200, and so on. hope it works :)

[KrissTheSavage]

Why waste time for a toy like that?? Buy proper microcontroller like AVR, PIC or 8051 and learn C. You'll learn much more about the actual hardware and program processing.

[iCommdore]

@94vujke I know! I noticed the same! I'm a Xubuntu guy...

[iCommdore]

@reeferdk Very good, bro! LOL. C++ Veteran?