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<\/a><\/p>\nOf course, I didn’t bother to read all the directions and soon found out that the connection is a USB Type B connector – last time I used one of those was about 6 years ago in a big external HDD \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Quick trip to PC World solved that, and grabbed a 4GB microSD card to increase storage.<\/p>\n
Got the development environment installed without any issue, and the Uno grabbed COM11 – loaded in the blink template and bingo – working without a hitch.<\/p>\n
Started playing with that a bit to create a very simple morse code SOS program.<\/p>\n
void<\/span> loop<\/b><\/span>() {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0x\u00a0=\u00a00;\r\n\u00a0\u00a0while<\/span> ( x < 3 ) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0digitalWrite<\/span>(led, HIGH<\/span>); \/\/ turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(500); \/\/ wait for a half second<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0digitalWrite<\/span>(led, LOW<\/span>); \/\/ turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(500); \/\/ wait for a half second<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0x++;\r\n\u00a0\u00a0}\r\n\u00a0\u00a0x\u00a0=\u00a00;\r\n\u00a0\u00a0while<\/span> ( x < 3 ) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0digitalWrite<\/span>(led, HIGH<\/span>); \/\/ turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(1000); \/\/ wait for a second<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0digitalWrite<\/span>(led, LOW<\/span>); \/\/ turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(500); \/\/ wait for a half second<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0x++;\r\n\u00a0\u00a0}\r\n\u00a0\u00a0x\u00a0=\u00a00;\r\n\u00a0\u00a0while<\/span> ( x < 3 ) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0digitalWrite<\/span>(led, HIGH<\/span>); \/\/ turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(500); \/\/ wait for a half second<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0digitalWrite<\/span>(led, LOW<\/span>); \/\/ turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(500); \/\/ wait for a half second<\/span>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0x++;\r\n\u00a0\u00a0}\r\n\u00a0\u00a0delay<\/span>(2000); \/\/ wait 2 secs<\/span>\r\n}<\/pre>\nClearly I need to get back to coding – was just thinking that if you add in functions this is a good example of many programmatic structures in a very short, easy to follow example (also need to get this blog indenting code correctly) [Edit – fixed. Turns out the editor has a copy-as-html feature which is nice].<\/p>\n
Looking forward to getting the network shield up and running tomorrow, but just to tired to jump into it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey, As I mentioned on another page I’d ordered an Arduino Uno and Ethernet Shield as an small side project, and they arrived today – great job Farnells for next working day delivery! Of course, I didn’t bother to read all the directions and soon found out that the connection is a USB Type B […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[30,31,29,33,32],"series":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-projects","tag-arduino-2","tag-new-toy","tag-programming","tag-projects-2","tag-simple-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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