Arduino Setup and Installation

About Arduino

Arduino boards are able to read inputs –light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message –and turn it into an output –activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online.

Getting the Arduino Ready

So we all can get started with the world of physical computing :

First you must have your Arduino board (Arduino Uno) and a USB cable
Download Arduino IDE Software
or Download Pictoblox
Power up your board by connecting it via USB
Launch IDE

Using the Arduino IDE, you will have to run the application file as shown in the below picture.

Run the Application file

Arduino IDE

Create your first project
Now open the file given to you

We are ready to start Physical Computing with Arduino.

Let us start the "Hello World" of Physical Computing that is called as the blink.