Week 1 - Introduction

This was an introduction to the module, in the lecture we were presented with a 'What is Arduino?' worksheet. On this sheet it had links to websites thats contained information ontghe Arduino programming language and basic tutorials. These links were:

Arduino Programming Language

Introductory Arduino Tutorials

Arduino Booklet

Various Code Tutorials

Arduino Quickstart Guide 

We were instructed to create a simple circuit which involved a LED and of course the arduino board.

Here is some images of my working circuit with a video:

The code for this circuit was obtained from the arduino software examples (File - Sketchbook - Examples -  Digital - Blink).

Here is the code used:

/*

 * Blink

 *

 * The basic Arduino example.  Turns on an LED on for one second,

 * then off for one second, and so on...  We use pin 13 because,

 * depending on your Arduino board, it has either a built-in LED

 * or a built-in resistor so that you need only an LED.

 *

 * http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink

 */

int ledPin = 13;                // LED connected to digital pin 13

void setup()                    // run once, when the sketch starts

{

  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);      // sets the digital pin as output

}

void loop()                     // run over and over again

{

  digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);   // sets the LED on

  delay(1000);                  // waits for a second

  digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);    // sets the LED off

  delay(1000);                  // waits for a second

}