Arduino for Beginners: Your First Arduino Program!
In this Arduino beginner's guide I'll cover what an Arduino is, how to set up the Arduino IDE, and how to create your first Arduino program.
About this guide
This guide is an absolute introduction that assumes the reader has little or no experience with an Arduino. I'm going to explain all the basics of an Arduino and show you how to write your first Arduino program: a variation on the classic "blinking LED" example. Even if you don't have an LED handy, this guide will be useful to you.
If you have experience using Arduino and are aware of all of its components and how they are utilized, you may use this guide as a refresher on the basics. We've also put together a handy Arduino FAQ for you to peruse.
To complete this guide fully, you'll need an Arduino or cheaper Arduino clone.
Upcoming series
This will be the first in a series of articles that will broaden into more advanced uses with Arduino by adding sensors and consuming the data to make real-time graphs and other interesting things that I have not yet thought of.
Because I have a background in science and physics, I'll be doing some experiments with this data to prove and illustrate some already-understood scientific concepts in ways that are as ridiculous as I can get away with.
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