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Arduino Tutorial - Lesson 1 - Let there be blink! Ah yes, it is finally time to make your Arduino do something! We're going to start with the classic hello world! of electronics, a blinking light. This lesson will basically get you up and running using the Arduino software and uploading a sketch to the Arduino board. Once you've completed this step we can continue to the really exciting stuff, which is when we start writing our own sketches! These instructions mostly show Windows software. Not much is needed for this lesson, just a USB cable and an Arduino. Make sure you've gone through Lesson 0 first! The first thing to do is download the Arduino software. Go to the Arduino Software Download page and grab the right file for your OS. The packages are quite large, 30-50 MB so it may take a while to finish Extract the package onto the Desktop Windows Mac OS X Double click the Arduino software icon To open up the workspace I think I get the red error text shown because I already have Arduino installed. Windows port selection Mac port selection

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