This lab will serve to get the Arduino environment set up on your laptop and to familiarize yourself with building circuits around the arduino hardware. We will be using pre-existing code and the arduino board to control an LED and make it blink.

Steps

• Go throught the initial tutorials on setting up the Arduino environment on your laptop and to complete the blinking LED lab. Instructions for different platforms are available directly at http://www.arduino.cc. Here are direct links to the more common platforms: Windows, Mac OS X. and Linux. *NOTE: In step 5, they ask you to plug an LED directly into the Arduino. Please ignore this and build the circuit shown in the images below.
• Submit your report to the student pages: Click here to create a new project page. (Note: It'll probably look very much like the one we showed in class. That's okay. As long as it has your own photo in it.)

Hints

• Use red wires when attaching things to source (positive terminal)
• Use black wires when attaching things to ground (negative terminal)
• Keep things neat.
• LEDs are polarized. The short leg must go to ground.
• The 220-ohm resisitor is labeled red, red, brown, gold. It is not polarized.