hey i was wondering if anyone could instruct me on how to firstly wire up an Led to the ardunio board(safely ie not over powering the led) then secondly tell me out to control the led in pd, possibly giving the light a flickering effect.

thanks

It's all here:

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage

http://fffff.at/do-you-have-a-light/

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Well, there's tons of info on the "arduino playground" site. The blinking led example comes with the Arduino environment. IF you want connectivity with Pd, Hans' Firmata and Pduino should help. Without using the Firmata it is also possible to just talk to arduino via the serial port. Flickering could be accomplished easily by analogWrite-ing values based on a perlin noise function. Flickering led's are often found in those plastic 'votive candles' that are so prevalent now. This is accomplished with an analog noise circuit.