
Short circuits on Arduino pins, or attempting to run high current devices from them, can damage or destroy the output transistors in the pin, or damage the entire Atmega chip.
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This is enough current to brightly light up an LED (don't forget the series resistor), or run many sensors, for example, but not enough current to run most relays, solenoids, or motors. This means that they can provide a substantial amount of current to other circuits.Ītmega pins can source (provide positive current) or sink (provide negative current) up to 40 mA (milliamps) of current to other devices/circuits. Pins configured as OUTPUT with pinMode() are said to be in a low-impedance state. This works in the other direction as well, and an output pin that is left in a HIGH state will have the pullup resistors set if switched to an input with pinMode(). Consequently, a pin that is configured to have pullup resistors turned on when the pin is an INPUT, will have the pin configured as HIGH if the pin is then switched to an OUTPUT with pinMode(). The pullup resistors are controlled by the same registers (internal chip memory locations) that control whether a pin is HIGH or LOW. If LEDs in a project seem to be working, but very dimly, this is likely what is going on. The pullup resistors provide enough current to dimly light an LED connected to a pin that has been configured as an input. In the case of a simple switch, this causes the pin to read HIGH when the switch is open, and LOW when the switch is pressed. When connecting a sensor to a pin configured with INPUT_PULLUP, the other end should be connected to ground.

For the exact value, consult the datasheet of the microcontroller on your board. On the Arduino Due, it is between 50kΩ and 150kΩ. On most AVR-based boards, the value is guaranteed to be between 20kΩ and 50kΩ. The value of this pullup depends on the microcontroller used. This effectively inverts the behavior of the INPUT mode, where HIGH means the sensor is off, and LOW means the sensor is on. These built-in pullup resistors are accessed by setting the pinMode() as INPUT_PULLUP. There are 20K pullup resistors built into the Atmega chip that can be accessed from software. Properties of Pins Configured as INPUT_PULLUP Reset pin: making this pin LOW resets the microcontroller.

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They are connected with the corresponding ATmega328P USB to TTL serial chip.

The digital pins can be used to interface sensors by using them as input pins or drive loads by using them as output pins.Ī simple function like pinMode() and digitalWrite() can be used to control their operation.

There are totally 14 digital Pins and 8 Analog pins on your Nano board.
