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Step 4Powering your board

Powering your board
There are 3 power pins with a jumper over two of them. The power jumper goes over the last two pins if you are using usb power (just like shown here). Lift off the jumper and push down over the first two if you are connecting 9 volts from a wall wart.
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Jan 17, 2011. 3:46 PMcomputergeek321 says:
and the Arduino uno
Jul 17, 2010. 6:04 AMDannne11 says:
good to know :D
Mar 27, 2009. 5:11 AMapeine says:
You only have to do that if you have a diecimila of older boards. Boards like Duemilanove and Mega switch automatically.

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