I purchased Jeremy Blum’s “Exploring Arduino” and a uno from Spark Fun. My idea is to get the BOE shield that parallax makes and use my old Boe-Bot to get going with Arduino. Downloaded IDE, loaded blink program from the book’s website and the yellow LED stays on solid. I am running Windows 7, used Windows installer so I think the drivers are working, when I upload everything seems to be OK, port says Com4 with a check mark in front of it. Not sure what to check next. Have restarted and re-uploaded several times. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
I was able to fix it. The downloaded program had the LED as pin 9, should have been 13. Changed code to 13 and it works.
I am excited about getting to know the arduino platform, much cheaper than Parallax Stamp 2 so I can mess with multiple ideas and projects without breaking the bank.