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The process of designing and writing source code as part of a program (or sketch) for Arduino. For questions about uploading code to an Arduino board, use the [uploading] tag instead.

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How can Arduino know that the number in a variable is a pin number and not something else?

You need to put the correct number into the pinMode() function. You could put the number into a variable like: int ledPin = 13; pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); or you can put a number straight into pinMo …
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