First off I'd like to say I started off with these instructions... https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoUno
Where it says, "A few seconds after the upload finishes, you should see the pin 13 (L) LED on the board start to blink (in orange). If it does, congratulations! You've gotten Arduino or Genuino up-and-running. If you have problems, please see the troubleshooting suggestions."
My pin 13 (L) LED on the board doesn't blink it's just a solid orange light. The RX and TX light blink though.
Any suggestions? The IDE I uploaded is the IDE 1.6.12
Also I can't locate the "arduino.inf" file under drivers. That isn't an option for me.
Finally, navigate to and select the driver file named "arduino.inf", located in the "Drivers" folder of the Arduino Software download (not the "FTDI USB Drivers" sub-directory). If you are using an old version of the IDE (1.0.3 or older), choose the Uno driver file named "Arduino UNO.inf"
I see the FTDI USB Driver, but I can't locate the arduino.inf.
What do you see in DEVICE MANAGER ?
Are there any devices with exclamation or question marks ?
What is your OS ?
Is it a REAL arduino or a clone ? (link to where you got it is useful)
Any other information that you think would be useful. (see HERE for help)
This is what is shown in the device manager. This is not an Arduino clone, it's a genuine Arduino that was purchased on Adafruit. The operating system is Windows 10.
Okay, I manage to get the light to blink. I installed Arduino programmer (sketches) from Adafruit, during the installations process it had me check a few boxes. One of those boxes was atmega238 which is on my Uno R3. When I downloaded the programmer from arduino.cc it never asked me to check any boxes.
Now I have another problem. I ran the blink program, changed the delays on the blinking light and it seems to work just fine. Now I am attempting to connect a LED light with a 270 ohm resistor. Red lead (+) is in pin 5V and black lead (-) is in pin GND. So I uploaded the script for blink again and my LED light doesn't blink as well.
Also the basic "blink" program doesn't have the int led = 13; as a default. That doesn't even exist when I open it up.
On Adafruit it does give int led = 13;
EDIT: Never mind I figured it out. I forgot to move the red lead to pin 13. Why doesn't the following code have int? I changed the red lead to pin 7 and made int led = 7 but it LED light doesn't blink.
EDIT 2: Okay, never mind figured it out.
I cut the trace on the motorshield so I could run external power. How do I run a test on the servo? There is no examples available and most tutorials are running the servo directly off the Uno R3 at pin 9. I don't want to do this.
There are LOTS of examples for various motor shields.
Rather than just jump into the forum for every minor issue maybe GOOGLE can be your friend in searching for things.
Maybe the source of your shield has some if it was bought from a reputable dealer ?
Also the shield type (link to source) would get you a bit more help as there are MANY types of motor shield.
They are not all the same and nobody but you can see whats on your bench !!!
If I were you then you might want to read HERE right away.
