Accessing the GPIO Pins - Arduino Robotic Projects

Hardware Reference

In-Depth Information

The Arduino IDE and LED code

To create the LED code, start the Arduino IDE. Then, recall the code you wrote in Chapter

1 , Powering on Arduino . The IDE should look like the following screenshot:

In this code, setting led 13 lit the orange LED on the board. It turns out that the led output

pin 13 is also the connection to pin 13 on the connector of the Arduino Uno. If you upload

and run this program, the LED connected to pin 13 should flash at the same rate as the

LED on the Arduino Uno, as shown in the following image:

Search WWH ::

Custom Search

Home