Issues with hardware

Hardware
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I bought "The Most Complete Starter Kit Mega Project" from Arduino, downloaded the software, drivers, copied the extra items from the Read Me First area, and tried to initiate the blink test, but every time I press upload, this pops up:

Arduino: 1.8.18 (Windows 10), Board: "Arduino Uno"

Sketch uses 924 bytes (2%) of program storage space. Maximum is 32256 bytes.

Global variables use 9 bytes (0%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2039 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.

An error occurred while uploading the sketch

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0xa7

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: MALFORMED

at java.util.zip.ZipCoder.toString(ZipCoder.java:58)

at java.util.zip.ZipFile.getZipEntry(ZipFile.java:583)

at java.util.zip.ZipFile.access$900(ZipFile.java:60)

at java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipEntryIterator.next(ZipFile.java:539)

at java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipEntryIterator.nextElement(ZipFile.java:514)

at java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipEntryIterator.nextElement(ZipFile.java:495)

at processing.app.tools.ZipDeflater.deflate(ZipDeflater.java:41)

at processing.app.Base.handleAddLibrary(Base.java:2362)

at processing.app.Base$6.actionPerformed(Base.java:1123)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)

at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)

at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:376)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:842)

at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:886)

at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6539)

at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)

at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6304)

at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2239)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)

at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2297)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4904)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4535)

at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4476)

at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2283)

at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:760)

at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)

at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)

at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)

at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:84)

at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:733)

at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:730)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:205)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Please help!

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Welcome! Thanks for following the guidelines. Sorry I have no idea what you have. What Arduino is in the kit. With that information you need to go into tools and select the appropriate Arduino. It is probably defaulting to UNO but that is a guess. I see this message a lot, as I switch boards and forget to change the IDE.

When writing code add about a 5 second delay in startup() ie delay(5000); This will allow you to recover from a serial flood. Example loop() {Serial.print""Hello World")} It will fill the print buffer and lock your system up as it will be waiting to put more into the buffer. When programming the reset is not always fast enough to recover, this ensures it will.

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It looks like you are trying to run it from the zip file...

That is an Elegoo kit containing an Arduino 2560.

User Manual: Page 19 suggests installing a driver.