Steps to success and sometimes failure.

I start my adventure into technology after I download the Arduino IDE program, get my blog and you tube accounts set up.  I think I am ready to dive in !!!!

Oct.31, 2018 I open up my blue box and find all sorts of wires, boards, resisters, and pins.  I must admit I am feeling a little overwhelmed.  As I read the starter kit guide I put the boards on the plate only to be told by my son I have them upside down.  After I fix this I am unsure if I need to put in the code given to us first or put the things needed on the board.  I get stuck because I am not sure just what to write into the computer.  Do I put in just the symbols or everything word for word.

Nov. 2, 2018  I sent out a SOS to my classmates asking how the code needed to written.  Before I got a responses my oldest son offered to set with me and help me through the process so I could have a foundation of procedures as I work through this process.  He told me to connect all things first as illustrated in the guide book.  As I do so he explained about the positive and negative sides and how the circuit follows to make things possible.  Once I had all components installed I hooked the board to the computer and the light was on.  Now to make it blink.  I decided to type the code in as written with the directions included and shazam it worked, my light was blinking as directed.  My First Success!!!!!!

Now I was feeling more confident.  I started to play with my board.  My first attempt was to reverse the wiring and nothing happened the transistor did not light up. Next, I changed the digital bus from the #13 directly to the positive to the breadboard.  It made a simple circuit and the light did not blink but stayed on solidly.  Next, I tried removing the positive lead from the breadboard and nothing happened because the circuit is completed through the #13 digital pen using the green wire. Then I tried moving the wire from #13 to #12 on the Arduino and I found I needed to change pin 13 and intled=13 both to 12 instead of 13 in order for it to work on the 12.
Finally I tried changing the code from (1000) to (2000) and saw that the light blinked much slow.  When I changed it to (50) the bulb blinked much faster.