Hello
This is my first arduino project and I was trying to test a simple program that uses pin 14 as an output to an LED and Pin 9 as an input for a button. The program simply waits for pin 9 to go high when the button is pushed. My issue is that i connect the LED from pin 14 to the negative power port, and when I just touch pin 9 with either my bare finger or a piece of stripped wire the pin acts as if it has gone high and runs the program to blink the LED for roughly 5 seconds and then stop. So I know that my program sort of works, but I am unsure why pin 9 goes high when it is not connected to the negative port on the board and is activated when touched by a finger or wire in my hand. If need be I can post my code on this thread. Any help would be much appreciated.
-womtom