Chapter 01: Moving In

Do these antiques still work? (Blink for HERO XL)

After stumbling onto some abandoned company's warehouse, you fill an old crate to the brim with pre-AI era technology from their company museum. Time to check if this stuff even turns on anymore.

"It looks like inventr.io built a museum here displaying the products that the company produced. It's complete with working samples of the pre-AI microcontrollers that made the company famous along with everything necessary for visitors to try them out, including different laptop computers of the day showing the different operating systems that pre-AI computers used to run.

Check out this display. It has a bunch of working HERO XL boards, an early (pre-AI!) inventr.io microcontroller. Being pre-AI, we can safely use these to make our life easier in our new home. Let's take a closer look at these."

Blink

/*
  Blink

  Turns an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.

  Most Arduinos have an on-board LED you can control. On the UNO, MEGA and ZERO
  it is attached to digital pin 13, on MKR1000 on pin 6. LED_BUILTIN is set to
  the correct LED pin independent of which board is used.
  If you want to know what pin the on-board LED is connected to on your Arduino
  model, check the Technical Specs of your board at:
  https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Products

  modified 8 May 2014
  by Scott Fitzgerald
  modified 2 Sep 2016
  by Arturo Guadalupi
  modified 8 Sep 2016
  by Colby Newman

  This example code is in the public domain.

  https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BuiltInExamples/Blink
*/

// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {
  // initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);  // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
  delay(1000);                      // wait for a second
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);   // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
  delay(1000);                      // wait for a second
}