Sparkfun Electronics RedBoard, Manual

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Component:
Image Reference:
Servo
e5
e7
e6
Jumper Wire Jumper Wire Jumper Wire
e6 e7 e5
5V
Jumper Wire
Pin 9
a7
Jumper Wire Jumper Wire Jumper Wire Jumper Wire
GND
b5
+
a6
+
The Arduino development environment gives you a very useful set of built-in commands for doing basic input and output, making decisions using logic, solving math problems, etc. But the real power of Arduino is the huge community using it and their willingness to share their work. Libraries are collections of new commands that have been packaged together to make it easy to include them in your sketches. Arduino comes with a handful of useful libraries, such as the servo library used in this example, that can be used to interface to more advanced devices (LCD displays, stepper motors, ethernet ports, etc.) See
http: //arduino.cc/en/reference/libraries
for a list of the standard libraries and
information on using them. But anyone can create a library, and if you want to use a new sensor or output device, chances are that someone out there has already written one that interfaces that device to the RedBoard. Many of SparkFun's products come with Arduino libraries, and you can find even more using Google and the Arduino Playground at
http://arduino.cc/playground/
.
When YOU get the RedBoard working with a new device, consider making a library for it and sharing it with the world! To use a library in a sketch, select it from
Sketch > Import Library
.
After importing the library into your code, you will have access to a number of pre-written commands and functions. More information on how to use the standard library functions can be accessed at:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Libraries
.
Expand your horizons using Libraries:
File
Edit
Sketch
Tools
Help
EEPROM Ethernet Firmata LiquidCrystal SD Servo SoftwareSerial SPI Stepper Wire
Verify / Compile Show Sketch Folder Add File... Import Library
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