I have been playing about with my arduino since december (a fantastic xmas present) but just recently I bought some new electronics parts (a breadboard and some jumper wires) eager to build bigger ciruits but wanting to check everything worked first I set up the new bread board and completed a basic pin 13-breadboard-resistor-led-ground circuit.
It didn't work, assuming my understanding of the bread board was wrong i tried to form the circuit down a column (instead of across a row) which didn't work either. I then assumed my breadboard was bad and tried the new wires with an old bread board I know works. Nothing happened.
After a series of experiments it turns out the only thing my arduino can do right now is light up an led on pin 13 directly plugged into the arduino. Even if i write the code to make it blink, the led will not turn off. To further assume I was in the wrong I uploaded the blink tutorial code direct from the ide and still the led would not turn off.
Can someone help me restore my arduinos functionality as I very much enjoy developing with my arduino and would like to continue to do so.
Thanks.