I see. Thanks for letting me know. So nominally is the circuit and code correct?
How would I go about modifying the circuit to accommodate a power source? A transistor with the potentiometer on the drain, the battery on the source, and the yellow wire on row 17 as the gate?
It's weird Arduino's own starter kit shouldn't meet the specs of their own hardware though - would I not expect everyone to be suffering this same problem with this project (t's from the tutorials)? (It is this tutorial)