Setting up the Arduino board

In this section we will briefly look at how to setup an Arduino Uno development board and its corresponding Integrated Development Environment (IDE).The process of the first time setup will depend upon the operating system of the computer and is available at the following Arduino Foundation website addresses. It is expected that the reader will perform the setup prior to proceeding further.

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Depending upon the Operating System, the Arduino IDE can be downloaded from the following locations on the official Arduino Foundation website: Windows: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Windows Macintosh: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MacOSX Linux: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Linux

As the majority of computer users worldwide use the Windows operating system, this book will provide some practical observations while setting up the Arduino Uno board on a Windows 7 computer (at the time of writing this book)--this information will help the reader additionally during the...