The loop function runs as long as the Arduino board is powered and will blink the LED ON and OFF withe 1 second pause between states. You can use another pin, for example pin 12 and then change the ...

There are just 3 commands being used here: pinMode is the command you tell the Arduino board what is the mode of a particular pin. If not, then the default is input.. digitalWrite is the command ...

Uploading the Arduino LED Blink Code. Now, let’s upload our first program to the Arduino board through the Arduino IDE that we just downloaded. The Arduino IDE when installed comes with some example ...

They did some tweaking of the Arduino IDE configuration files and incorporated some core library code created by [Alessandro Saporetti] to get the job done – all of which is available on their site.

Before I start talking about this really cool thing called Arduino (Italian for "good friend"), let me say a few things about the fascinating subject of physical computing. Physical computing has been ...