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Blinking LED — Your First Arduino Project
The classic first electronics project! Build a blinking LED circuit using an Arduino, a breadboard, a resistor, and a single LED. Perfect for absolute beginners — no soldering required.
Instructions
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Gather Your Components
Gather Your Components
Collect all components listed below. No soldering needed — everything plugs into the breadboard.
Materials for this step:
SparkFun Inventor's Kit - V3.21 kit
Arduino Uno R31 piece
5mm LED (any color)1 piece
220 ohm Resistor (1/4W)1 piece
Breadboard1 piece
Jumper Wires (Male-to-Male)2 piecess
USB-B Cable1 pieceTools needed:
Computer with Arduino IDE
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Circuit Schematic
Circuit Schematic
Signal flows from Arduino Pin 13 → 220Ω resistor (R1) → LED (D1) → GND. The resistor limits current to protect the LED.
Materials for this step:
Arduino Uno R31 piece
5mm LED (any color)1 piece
220 ohm Resistor (1/4W)1 piece3
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Wire It Up
Wire It Up
- Insert the LED into the breadboard — long leg (anode +) in one row, short leg (cathode −) in the next.
- Insert one leg of the 220Ω resistor into the same row as the LED cathode. Other leg in a separate row.
- Jumper wire from LED anode row → Arduino Pin 13.
- Jumper wire from resistor free row → Arduino GND.
Materials for this step:
5mm LED (any color)1 piece
220 ohm Resistor (1/4W)1 piece
Breadboard1 piece
Jumper Wires (Male-to-Male)2 piecess4
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Upload the Blink Code
Upload the Blink Code
Connect Arduino via USB. Open Arduino IDE, select Tools → Board → Arduino Uno, paste the code, and click Upload.
blink.inoarduino
// Blinking LED — Your First Arduino Project
// Turns an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.
const int LED_PIN = 13; // Pin connected to the LED
void setup() {
pinMode(LED_PIN, OUTPUT); // Set pin 13 as an output
}
void loop() {
digitalWrite(LED_PIN, HIGH); // Turn LED ON
delay(1000); // Wait 1 second
digitalWrite(LED_PIN, LOW); // Turn LED OFF
delay(1000); // Wait 1 second
}
// EXPERIMENT IDEAS:
// - Change delay(1000) to delay(100) for fast blinking
// - Change delay(1000) to delay(2000) for slow blinking
// - Try delay(50) for a strobe effect
// - Use different values for ON and OFF times:
// delay(200) ON, delay(800) OFF = short flash
// delay(800) ON, delay(200) OFF = long flash
Materials for this step:
Arduino Uno R31 piece
USB-B Cable1 pieceTools needed:
Computer with Arduino IDE
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PCB Layout (Reference)
PCB Layout (Reference)
This shows the circuit as a PCB layout. Not needed for this project — the breadboard works perfectly — but shows how the same circuit would look if manufactured as a real board.
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Test and Experiment
Test and Experiment
LED blinks? Congratulations! You just programmed hardware.
Troubleshooting:
Next experiments:
Troubleshooting:
- LED does not light up? Flip the LED — long leg toward Pin 13.
- LED stays on? Check code uploaded successfully.
- Nothing happens? Verify wiring matches the schematic in Step 2.
Next experiments:
- Change
delay()values to control blink speed - Add a second LED on Pin 12
- Replace with an RGB LED (see SIK Circuit 3)
Materials
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Tools Required
2- Computer with Arduino IDE
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Estimated Total
$105.00CC0 Public Domain
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