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Assignment1

Student Learning Outcomes

• Student will learn basic safety requirements for the class. Other safety issues

will be discussed as the class progresses.

• Student will learn to set up the Arduino platform and send Sketches (programs) to the board.
• Student will learn to change timing settings on the board.

Lectures and Demonstrations

• Safety
• Setup
• Basic anatomy of a sketch (program)
• Understand and use: Comments, the “equals” sign, semicolon, delay.

Tutorials and help sheets

• http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage
• Get familiar with the board https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-an-arduino
• Lady Ada Lesson 0 and Lesson 1 or https://learn.adafruit.com/lesson-0-getting-started/the-lessons

Description of Assignment: Blink!

• Set up the interface with the computer, read the tutorials above and get your microcontroller LED to blink at a rate of 5 times a second for 100 milliseconds with a 100 millisecond rest between each blink. (Ignore the processing time of the program.)

Alter the program to get the Arduino to flash in some customized manner.

Due date given in class. Attach your program labeled as follows to an email and send it to Louis: "blinkLK.ino (lk are my initials)

Covering, comments, semicolons, digitalWrite, delay, pinMode(pinnumber,Output).

Example of proper documentation (comments) for the class

• on a Wiki page
• as an Arduino File