How to Start your first Arduino Project?

 

How to Start your first Arduino Project?

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what is an Arduino.

what is Arduino types.

what can an Arduino do?

example Arduino project.

what is an Arduino?

Arduino is a Development Board Consists of the MCU Atmega328p utilizing it Pins in a simplified way to make prototyping a lot more fun and appreciable, and rather than using an external Programmer Arduino added a UART Chip Called FTDI in their original Arduino to allow the user to connect the board Directly to PC or Laptop via USB Port, Arduino Made Meany and Meany Board and still developing more, most common boards are Nano, Uno and Mega Boards. Finally, Arduino Made their own IDE which stands for (integrated development environment) To Simplify Programming even More, Called Arduino IDE you can find the Link in the description this IDE is Supported by a huge community and provided by unlimited resources on several platforms, like Instructorless YouTube GitHub and Patreon

 

Arduino Types

 

Arduino UNO:

                        It’s the first Arduino Got Created and build around MCU Atmega238p and Has 19 I/O distributed around the board in a female header pins arraigned as 0 to 13 Digital pins and 6 of them are PWM Capable and from A0 to A5 are 6 Analog pins or ADC pins. Look at the pinouts below,

                       

Arduino Nano:

 

                        Nano is Uno’s Little Clone (Mini Me) it also Has the MCU Atmega238 but as an SMD and Has 19 I/O distributed around the board in a Male header pins usually note soldiered in board arraigned as 0 to 13 Digital pins and 6 of them are PWM Capable and from A0 to A5 are 6 Analog pins or ADC pins. Look at the pinouts below

 

Arduino Mega:

                        Truly is Mega built around the giant MCU atmega2560 it has 52 I/O 22 of the digital and 16 ADC and communication pins, power, ground etc. look below to pinout

what can an Arduino do?

 

                Or what it can’t do, Arduino with the right modules and gadgets and a grate imagination nothing stops it, its only disadvantage is clock speed its slightly slower than other controller like Raspberry Pico but you can check Arduino’sofficial website for millions of projects done using one of their boards

Example Arduino project

                        The simplest example as always in MCU’s is blinking an LED, so what we need is

Arduino Board

Bread Board

 LED

330 Ohm Resistor

Computer

 And Arduino IDE

Start by connecting all like it shows below:

And make sue the LED is connected the right way (anode/positive to positive and cathode/negative to negative)

The LED’s anode is the longest pin or the pin connected to the smaller block inside the LED shown below:

Now download Arduino IDE form here and flow along the installation like shown below :

First Run the Exactable file:

Then Agree to the Terms of Use

Then click next to install all checked items by default all check recommended to keep it that way.

Chose the installation folder but I recommend to leave it as it is and click install

Wait for the installation to complete.

When the driver’s installation box pups up click on install

Now click on the close button.

Run the software

This is the default sketch and it will show in first lunch. Fortunately it’s the sketch we need   

Now connect your board to your Computer and go to Tools tab and select your board.

Then in Tools Tab also select your Possessor (If you don’t know It and it didn’t work with Some Choose the other)

Now choose your Port

Change the delay from 1000 to 500 to see the change in Arduino blink as every Arduino coms with blink sketch already uploaded.

Finally upload the code by clicking the upload button (arrow pointing right).

Waite for it to upload and the observe your LED’s behaviour

 

That’s it you have successfully completed your first Arduino project

Check the Video on YouTube for a walkthrough 

How to Start your first Arduino Project?