Download Arduino Software Interface
First of all, today we’re going to talk about the Arduino Software Interface. Before we talk about this, let’s download the Arduino software. You can Download Arduino Software Interface.
Arduino Software: – Download Here
Go to this link and install the downloaded software to your computer and open the Arduino software. The interface you see is the Arduino Environment Page.
- 3. The program you wrote can be uploaded to your program to the Arduino Board by clicking this button.
- 4. You can start a new code by clicking on this button.
- 5. You can open a program that you previously saved.
- 6. This button can be used to save your program to the computer.
- 7. Serial Monitor (I’ll tell you more in a previous post)
How to install Arduino to PC? After Download Arduino Software Interface
First we connect the Arduino board to the computer. To do that, you need to install the drivers for the Arduino board correctly.
To do that, right click on My Computer icon and go to Properties. Now go to Device Manager. Then it will show all the drivers installed on the computer. (Picture 4)Right-click on Unknown Device under Other Devices and select Update Driver Software.
After that, the box menu you see “Browse my computer for driver software” select this.
Next, click the Browse button. Then select the Drivers sub-folder in the installed arduino folder and click on the OK button. After installing Drivers, in the drive manager window you will see the drive named Arduino UNO (COMx) under Port (COM & LPT).
Where COM is the x followed by the number of the installed port. (Picture 6) ton. After installing the drivers you will need to open the arduino software to get the basic setup.
You need to open the arduino software. Just like normal software, you can also open arduino software. When we open the arduino software, the arduino environment page opens.
It is through this environment page that you write the code and link the code to the microcontroller mounted on the arduino board.
Connect the port to Arduino board with PC
Now select Tools> Port to select the port. Then go through the sub menu and select the port where drives are installed. This is COMx in the drive manager window. (x should come in the port number as mentioned earlier)
Next the board should be selected. You have to go to Tools> Board. In the sub menu that follows, select the board. Select this as Arduino Uno. (E.g :- this will change if you are not using a UNO board)
Now the basic setup is done. You do not need to set these settings each time you access the arduino environment.
When you open the Arduino software, you will see a window like the 7 image. In this section we need to write code. There are 2 main sections. That is,
void setup ( ) { }
section and
void loop ( ) {
} section
Basic arduino program to blink LED
When you start a program, you need to write only one partition. And what’s going to be a continuous loop, or a cycle, is written inside this for loop.
Let’s take a simple example, Let’s first blink an LED. In this case the LED is turned ON for a second and turned off for a second. This must be infinite. Let us see how to write a program for this.
The Arduino program to blink a LED bulb
void setup ( ) {
pinMode ( 13, OUTPUT ) ;
}
void loop ( ) {
digitalWrite ( 13, HIGH ) ;
delay ( 1000 ) ;
digitalWrite ( 13, LOW ) ;
delay ( 1000 ) ;
}
Introducting the Arduino blinking LED Program
In this case, the setup section has started in line 1. Here the 13th pin of the Arduino board is defined as an output. That means the 13th pin can be output by the 2nd line.
Then line 4 has started the loop section. In this loop section we need to write code in loop sections that will blink the LED as our requirement is to blink the LED continuously.
In line 5, the 13th pin made it HIGH. It means to give the 13th Pin a High Digital Output. There are only 2 instances where a digital signal has electricity available or not. This code section has been given 15v voltage to the 13 th pin. According to the 8 th picture, If the LED is connected as shown in Figure 8, this code section will turn on the LED.
Control the time on blinking
In 6 line has a delay of 1000ms otherwise 1s. That means waiting a second for the program to do nothing.
Then at the end of a second, the 13th pin will output a digital signal called LOW. That means 13th pin has a voltage of 0V. Then the LED will turn off.
After that, we get a 1s Delay as before. This process is repeated so we can see blinking LED.
You may have seen about the Arduino Software Interface and how to write a Basic program. Download Arduino Software Interface