Arduino Sketch
Ok you may want to know what a "sketch" is. Well basically a sketch is like a song sheet, it tells the Arduino what to do.
It is made up of a few basic parts
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The definitions or declarations
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The setup
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the Void loop
If you want to find out more Id suggest you jump online and read a few Ebooks, if you have programmed in VBA or any other language really you will pick it up very quickly its pretty much just the syntax that changes a little.
The key thing you need to know for my sketchs is that they are all based on the Loconet library.
The library is a set of code created by someone that uses key words to pass information to and from it, those key words make it a lot easier to program.
You dont need to know how to use a sketch or write one for that matter, but you will need to know how to upload one to the arduino. Below is a video, just follow along and pause as you keep up.
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First you need to download the program called "IDE" from the link -->.
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Then install with all the default settings.
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It will create an Arduino folder under your mydocuments directory and then a library folder under that.
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Now you will need to copy the "Locnet.h" file to the library folder
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\Documents\Arduino\libraries\LocoNet
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