How to install arduino and its drivers in windows 10

The Arduino name may be familiar to many users. It is a company that manufactures digital devices and interactive devices with which to control real-world objects. It is a brand known worldwide and for which many users bet. When purchasing your products, hardware development boards, we must also install the software and drivers. That is what we are going to explain next.

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How to install Arduino and its drivers in Windows 10

What we explain to you is how this is achieved on computers that have Windows 10 as the operating system. A process that is not complicated and that you can finish in about 10 minutes. So you will be able to enjoy Arduino on your computer. What do we have to do?

Install Arduino software on Windows 10

First of all we have to download the software on our computer. For this we must go to the website of the company. You can download the software directly here. You have to select the Arduino IDE Installer in this case. It is an executable file, which will be downloaded automatically. So we have to wait for it to finish downloading.

Once it has been downloaded we have to run it. We proceed to install the software and choose the components that we want installed. In addition to the location in which we want it to be installed. Then we also have to accept the installation of the drivers in Windows 10. We have the option to download the.zip file. In this case we have to carry out the installation of these drivers manually.

Install Arduino drivers in Windows 10

We have to go to the device manager on our team. For this we write it in the search bar. Once we are inside we have to go to ports. Within this section we have to locate the Arduino UNO port. If you cannot find this port, you have to go to other devices and locate an unknown device.

So, we select the Arduino UNO port and click update driver. Next we select the option of "Browse on the computer to see the driver software". Then we go to the location where we have downloaded the software and select the file arduino.inf file / Arduino UNO.inf, it depends on the version you have downloaded. When we have done this we can only wait for Windows 10 to finish the process.

As you can see it is a simple process and it does not take long. In this way you can already enjoy the many advantages it offers you.