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Once you have completed your program you need to then send it to the Arduino board to check if it works.
Plug in the Arduino board to the USB port of the computer.
Go to the tool menu and set the correct COM port, otherwise the computer will not be able to communicate with the Arduino (Fig 1).
Plug in the Arduino board to the USB port of the computer.
Go to the tool menu and set the correct COM port, otherwise the computer will not be able to communicate with the Arduino (Fig 1).
Fig 1
You now need to send the program to your Arduino board.
This is done by selecting the ‘upload’ arrow which is located under the edit menu (Fig 2).
Once you have clicked this, your program should upload to your Arduino.
If the program is successful, your Arduino should now be running your program.
If the program isn’t successful, the bottom of the screen will give you an error message in red.
The main problems which are encountered are syntax issues where brackets, semi colons or upper case letters have been missed – check your program carefully for syntax errors (Errors usually show line numbers, that can be used to quickly find where problems have occurred.
This is done by selecting the ‘upload’ arrow which is located under the edit menu (Fig 2).
Once you have clicked this, your program should upload to your Arduino.
If the program is successful, your Arduino should now be running your program.
If the program isn’t successful, the bottom of the screen will give you an error message in red.
The main problems which are encountered are syntax issues where brackets, semi colons or upper case letters have been missed – check your program carefully for syntax errors (Errors usually show line numbers, that can be used to quickly find where problems have occurred.
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