uno board continually blinking

hi, i just got a uno board and sorted the driver etc, but when the board is on the led at L 13 continually blinks. Is the board shipped with a default program that causes L 13 to continually blink or have i done something wrong? Is there a way to reset the board? Any advice would be mich appreciated. Cheers.

Is the board shipped with a default program that causes L 13 to continually blink

Yes.

why? Its a bit annoying really, can i reset it?

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why? Its a bit annoying really, can i reset it?

Just download a different example program to the board. Or start with your own sketches.

will do, cheers.

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will do, cheers.

The Arduino just runs the last program that was stored in it when it boots up (unless the IDE is downloading a new program). If I'm going between projects, I usually load blink on the system to go to a known state.

why? Its a bit annoying really

To show the processor is working. It used to say 1 in morse code, for Uno, I don't know if it still does.