Arduino First Startup

downloaded the IDE. I don’t know C++ well, but I know this is a modified version, shouldn’t be hard to pickup.

Going to start with the simple program in the “arduino is easy, actually” vid. Built in light blinking periodically.

Wrote a simple heartbeat program:

void setup() {
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(13, LOW);
  delay(5000);
}

void loop() {
  for (int i=0;i<2;i++) {
    digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
    delay(250);
    digitalWrite(13, LOW);
    delay(250);
  }

  delay(2000);
}

Pretty cool. Seems like you just verify (optional), then upload. It tells you how many bites your “sketch” program uses of the program storage space, and something about the space global and local variables use. You then see the boards TX/RX light up as well as the 13 light, and then your program runs. It just runs in a loop in the program space. All of this is still so abstracted. I must learn more.