hi, this is the third beginner setup i made (as i 1 succeeded to let a LED blink, succeeded to let it fade and 3, succeeded to let a stepper motor run 
)
and now there's this problem letting a new VMA318 RGB LED shine 
what did i do? on breadboard:
i connected the - (gnd) sign on the rgb led to the power gnd on arduino
i connected Red (on RGB LED) with a 220R (no 180 av.) resistor to ~11 on arduino)
i connected Green (on RGB LED) with a 100R (no 110 av.) resistor to ~9 on arduino and
i connected Blue (on RGB LED) with a 100R (no 110 av.) resistor to ~10 on arduino
after that i chose, verified and uploaded the EsploraBlink tutorial code to the arduino (clone) in windows 7 (installation arduino driver went succesfully, comport says: arduino on 3)
code:
This example is in the public domain.
*/
#include <Esplora.h>
void setup() {
 // There's nothing to set up for this sketch
}
void loop() {
 Esplora.writeRGB(255, 0, 0); // make the LED red
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
 Esplora.writeRGB(0, 255, 0); // make the LED green
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
 Esplora.writeRGB(0, 0, 255); // make the LED blue
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
 Esplora.writeRGB(255, 255, 0); // make the LED yellow
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
 Esplora.writeRGB(0, 255, 255); // make the LED cyan
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
 Esplora.writeRGB(255, 0, 255); // make the LED magenta
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
 Esplora.writeRGB(255, 255, 255); // make the LED white
 delay(1000);         // wait 1 second
}
and now i got error message Exit status 1 (seems the arduino LIKES to show error messages again and again 
)
(help)
k.
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So arduino better should have put it like this: any board but the uno or: any board beside the uno...
(anyway i found out how to connect the VMA318 and resistors to the uno