Arduino Basics

This project is to help you get up-and-running with Arduino, the popular open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Once you are set up you can pair-up with the other hardware hackers at our weekly meetups.

Basic Ingredients

• Laptop (running macOS, Linux or Windows)
• USB Port
• Atom with:
• Script package
• Standard linter package (recommended)
• Node.js
• Arduino Uno (or compatible board)
• Breadboard
• LED Lights
• Resistors
• Jumper Cables

Note: If you don't have any of those, don't worry you can share with someone else at the meetup. 😄

Directions

In a medium sauce pan...

1. take your laptop out of the medium sauce pan
2. In the terminal, do: npm install -g johnny-five
3. Install Atom. Oh, and apm install script you'll be wanting that.
4. If you're running Ubuntu or another Linux distro, In the terminal, do:

• whoami Make careful note of who you are.
• sudo usermod -a -G dialout <whoyouare> (whoami told you this.)

5. If you're on a mac, you don't have to shave the yak in step 4.
6. Keep your laptop out of the sauce pan.
7. Fork and clone this repo.
8. In the terminal, do: cd arduino-basic
9. In the terminal, do: atom .
10. Plug the Arduino into a convenient USB port on your laptop. (It ought to be set up with the LED and everything already.)
11. In atom, open strobe.js
12. Click anywhere in the code editor and then type the magic command keys:

• macOS: ⌘I
• Linux: SHIFT-CTRL-B
• Windows: coming soon

Extra credit: Star this repo

This incantation should make the light on the Arduino blink repeatedly. You have now used JS and Johnny 5 to make a physical thing do a thing!

What!? It didn't do the thing?! Raise an issue! Clearly we didn't 'splain it right!