So now we get to see if our brain is damaged! It is time to download the software we use to program the Arduino (robot brain) and do a quick LED (light emitting diode) blink test. Watch the videos on this page and see if your Arduino brain is "clever" and ready to be programmed. Programming (also known as coding) is just a fancy technical term which means to give a series of instructions that a computer can understand. Many people believe that computers are very clever but at their simplest level they are lots of switches which have only 2 (binary) positions, ON (YES) or OFF (NO). This means that computers are as smart as your average dribbling 2 year old who can only point at things and nod (yes) or shake his head (NO)!!! This is why computers are so complex because it takes patterns of billions of these switches and very LONG programs to get them to work, because coding is like explaining the universe to a toddler (In actuality the toddler is much cleverer as he or she knows what they want).
THINGS TO DO:
WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS ON THIS PAGE
DOWNLOAD THE ARDUINO IDE CODE FROM LINK BELOW (MAKE SURE YOU GET THE CORRECT SOFTWARE FOR YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM IE. MAC, PC OR LINUX)
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
PLUG IN YOUR ARDUINO AND UPLOAD "BLINK" SKETCH TO IT