Installing the Arduino IDE

Install the latest version of the Arduino IDE from the Arduino download page.

When installing, you may be prompted to load a driver for USB/Serial communication. Please load the driver.

After installation, connect your Arduino to your computer with the USB cable.

Open the IDE and from the Tools menu, select the Board type and Port.

Next, from the File/Examples/01.Basics menu, select the Blink sketch and upload it to the Arduino to verify that you can communicate with the Arduino.

For Linux users, if you are having trouble upload the sketch, you may have to add yourself to the dialout group. To do this, open a terminal window and type:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout YOUR_USER_NAME

Log out of linux and log back in, then open the IDE and verify that you can upload the Blink sketch.