How to Connect to the Arduino Board

Now, when we take a look at some of the options that we have on boards, you may notice that many of them are going to come with a port for a USB drive in them.

To get started with connecting the board then, we need just to take the right ends of the USB cord and plug it into our computer and into the Arduino board that we are using.

This will get the Arduino board hooked up to the part of the computer that we want.

When we are able to do all of this, you will find that the software that comes with the IDE for our Arduino will instantly start to recognize the type of board that you are trying to use.

If this is not something that happens, then we just have to go through and choose which board is the correct one from the dropdown menu on the screen.

In addition to using the USB that we just talked about, we may need to bring out, in some situations, the TKDI cable, or a breakout board to help make sure that our controller is going to be completely compatible with the computer we are currently using.

This process is going to involve us going through and inserting the TKDI into the right board on the controller, similar to what we did with the USB.

For the most part, though, the USB is going to work just fine for our needs, and we can just rely on that part to get everything done.