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When I bought my Arduino Uno and connected it to my computer, I tried to make the simple blink circuit (before programming the Arduino) and suddenly the LED started blinking. Is the blink example the default Arduino sketch?

I am sure that I didn't uploaded anything to the board.

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Some may have the "Blink" sketch pre-installed, but many don't. However, when there is no sketch installed the board sits in bootloader mode waiting for you to upload a sketch. While it's in bootloader mode the LED pin pin D13 blinks.

If your LED is blinking about once a second then it's the Blink sketch. If it's rapidly blinking three or four times per second or so then it's in the bootloader and you have no sketch loaded.

Majenko
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