Slowly Learning

I have now played with all the components that came in my kit individually whilst looking at the official Arduino tutorials and also trying add things myself such as adding buttons to turn the project on or off and editing the code (which comes with the tutorials). If you haven't seen the tutorials they are very useful and I'll leave a link to it.

Tutorials Here

One of the things I like about the Arduino is that I don't have to solder anything together, I can just plug the wires into the Arduino and components. Here are some of the things I have made:

Chapter 5: LED Lights with On/Off buttons

This project is chapter 5 of The Most Complete Starter Kit for MEGA. Here the LED can be turned on/off with the buttons. If you wanted to increase/decrease the brightness of the LED you could change the resistor.

Chapter 11: The Keypad

Here, the keypad shows the different numbers on the screen. Hopefully, in the future I will be able to program it to be a pin security system.

You can go into the Arduino's IDE's serial monitor and see the output of the Arduino's keypad as I press the buttons (see video).