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Arduino Nano – General Introduction

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This is a very basic tutorial of Arduino. This tutorial explains the general introduction of Arduino Nano.

1. Introduction:

Arduino is an Integrated Development Environment based upon Processing. It has made very easy several things namely these are embedded system, physical computing, robotics, automation and other electronics based things.

Every Arduino has the same functionality and the same features except the number of pins and size. Arduino Nano is a small chip board based on ATmega 328p/Atmega 168.

2. Software Required:

The Arduino comes for the following operating systems. You may go for any of these.

  1. Windows
  2. Linux
  3. Mac OS

You may download the software from here.

After installation, connect the Arduino nano with the computer’s USB port using mini USB cord. Users can buy Arduino Nano V3 Compatible board with mini USB cord online from here. 

3. Arduino Nano – Driver Software

Arduino Boards works on Virtual serial port. You will need to install this to your computer. 

You may download the driver software from here.

After downloading, extract the zip folder and run the application file.

Click on the run button.

Follow the installing steps, then click on the install button.

The pop-up window of successful installation will appear on the screen after installation.

Right click on the computer icon on the desktop. Select properties and find ‘Device Manager >> Ports(COM & LPT) >> USB-SERIAL CH340 Port(COM13)’. This COM PORT will required later in this tutorial.

4. Arduino Software Introduction:

Some general Understanding:

  1. Code we write in Arduino is known as SKETCH.
  2. Compilation of the code is known as VERIFY.
  3. Transfer of the code from computer to Arduino board is known as UPLOAD.
  4. If you directly hit UPLOAD button of Arduino software, the software will first VERIFY the code and then will transfer that code to Arduino Board.

4.1 After installation of drivers open Arduino Software. It looks like the following screenshot.

4.2 Buttons of Arduino software:

4.3 Until you save your project, it displays its name as sketch_date. Default folder to save Arduino code(sketch) is My Documents/Arduino or similar location for Mac OS and Linux. Arduino saves each code in a folder extension of code is .ino. By default it creates a folder and in that folder create a file with the extension we have seen. It is to be noted that name of the folder and containing file should be same ( If you want to rename the sketch then change name of both).

4.4 Selection of Board: Select the Arduino Nano Board you are having from the available list.

4.5 Selection of Port: The port number you wrote is to be selected here i.e COM Port 13 (The Board should be attached to computer).

4.6 General understandings for programming:

Now you are ready to write you code. Once you have written your code save it and press UPLOAD button.

You may begin with our on of the basic tutorial – Digital Output with Arduino

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Content Development Team 
Robo India
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