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How to Install Arduino?

NOVEMBER 20, 2016 BY ADMINISTRATOR — LEAVE A COMMENT

In the previous tutorial, we have seen a brief introduction to Arduino, di erent types of Arduino
boards, the hardware and software components of a typical Arduino board and also the
features of the Arduino UNO board, the main board for this tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will see the installation of Arduino IDE and explore its components and
features. For the purpose of the tutorial, we need few components: an Arduino UNO board, a
USB cable and a computer.

Note: The USB cable is a Type – A to Type – B cable.

Arduino is di erent from other platforms available in the market like 8051, AVR, PIC, ARM etc.
One of the main di erence is that, Arduino is a multi platform environment i.e. we can use
Arduino irrespective of the platform or operating system.

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We have already seen in the previous tutorial that Arduino can be programmed with the help
of USB cable and Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The important
component is the Arduino IDE.

Arduino IDE is a cross platform application developed using Java. It is available for Windows,
Linux and Mac operating systems.

In order to download the Arduino IDE, go to the downloads page in Arduino’s o cial website
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Here, we can see download options for di erent platforms like Windows, Mac and Linux
on the right side of the page. As our system in our tutorial is focused on Windows
Operating system, we will download the software mentioned under Windows category.
You can note that there are again two download options for Windows platform: installer
le and zip le. Installer le will be a .exe le, which is a single executable le that helps in
step by step installation of the software.
In case of zip le, the installed les will be available in di erent folders. Since the
software is already installed, we shouldn’t disturb the structure of the sub folders. This is
suitable if you do not have the admin rights to the system.
Here, we will download the installer le and proceed with installation. When the
downloaded les is started, an installation dialog appears with some check boxes.

Here, the second option indicates to install the USB drivers for the Arduino. This option
will install the necessary USB drivers for Arduino board by default which will ensure that
the Arduino board can be directly used without any worry.
As we proceed to the next step of the installation, the Arduino IDE will start installing.
A bunch of libraries, examples and other important les get extracted to the speci ed
folder. Once the installation is complete, the setup asks us to install the drivers for USB. If
we select the install option, the driver installation option will start and the setup will
automatically search for drivers.

If the driver software installation setup nds the required drivers, it will show the same by
displaying a message as Arduino Uno Ready to use.

After successful installation of the IDE and the necessary drivers, we can check for the
con rming whether all the necessary drivers are installed or not.
So, rst we need to connect the Arduino UNO board to the computer i.e. USB Type A
cable to the USB port on the PC and USB Type B to the Arduino board.
After connecting the Arduino, we need to go to “Device Manager” from the control panel.
This tool will display the list of all internal and external devices connected to the system.
If the drivers are successfully installed and the system recognizes the device, we can nd
the Arduino Uno board connected to one of the COM ports in the “Ports” category in the
device manager.
It is important to note the number of the COM port to which Arduino is connected. This is
because we may connect many devices and even multiple Arduino boards and each
device can be di erentiated by the COM port.
If the Arduino Uno is not listed in Ports but in “Other devices” category, then the drivers of
the USB to serial adapter are not successfully installed.
In this case, we can manually install the drivers. For this, right click on the device in other
devices category and select update driver software option.
Then select the second option i.e. browse my computer for installing drivers located on
the computer. Go to the location where Arduino is installed and go to drivers folder in
that. In that folder, select the “arduino-org.inf” le. Then Windows will install the
necessary drivers from here.
At this point, we have successfully installed the Arduino IDE and the USB drivers for
Arduino. Next, we need to setup the Arduino IDE as per our board and the COM port it is
connected to.
Launch the Arduino IDE either by selecting the desktop shortcut or by going to the folder
where it is installed. When the IDE is launched, a blank sketch will open.
Before going in to the programming, there are two things we need to do. First is too
select the appropriate board and next to select the correct COM port to which it is
connected.
For this, go to Tools menu in the menu bar and go to Board option from the drop down
list. Here, we can see a list of all the Arduino compatible boards.
From this list, we have to select Arduino Uno (or whichever board you are using). Once
the correct board is selected, we have to select the correct COM port. For this, again go
to Tools and select Port option. Here, we can see the COM port to which the Arduino
board is connected and we need to select that port.
With this step, we have successfully installed the Arduino IDE, connected the Arduino UNO to
the computer and made the necessary settings as per the board and port in use.

In the next tutorial, we will see how to use the Arduino IDE and upload the rst program to our
Arduino.

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