Hi,
I just received the starter kit today. I'm new to Arduino and I'm having problems getting the first project to work. I'm supposed to press the button and the LED will light up, but when I press the button, nothing happens.
I used my LED tester to make sure the LED was working. I tried swapping to a different LED, and to a different resister. I am having a hard time telling the difference between the colors in the book and on the resister, so I'm not even sure that I'm using the 220-ohm resister.
It looks like I have everything hooked up the correct way-it looks the same as the book image as far as I can tell, except, I'm using orange wires instead of brown, because I didn't get any brown wires with my kit for some reason.
I also sent a test program and modified the Blink program to make sure that the Arduino board was working.
I swapped the switch with a different one to make sure that wasn't broken.
I took a picture of my setup. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Edit: I've also just tried using a 9-volt battery as the power source and it doesn't work with that either.
Thanks.