Simple Programs on the Arduino Uno
This week's assignment was to program an Arduino board to do something.
This week, I began by encountering various problems. I had issues with installing the Adafruit packages and could not upload anything to my board. After trying out many fixes and not succeeding, I decided to switch from the Itsy Bitsy to using the Arduino Uno board. I had to download extra drivers to communicate with the board and ultimately resolved my problem.
Since I've never used a microcontroller before, I tried same basic programming projects for beginners. I outline each of these projects in what follows.
Since I faced issues with downloading the hardware, I decided to retry the assignment from the first weeek of class that involves making an LED blink. To do this, I completed the following steps: