

These built-in pull-up resistors are accessed by setting the pinMode() as INPUT_PULLUP.

There are 20,000 pull-up resistors built into the Atmega chip that can be accessed from software. Using Built-in Pull-up Resistor with Pins Configured as Input

A 10K resistor is a good value for a pull-up or pull-down resistor. This can be done by adding a pull-up resistor (to +5V), or a pull-down resistor (resistor to ground) on the input. Pull-up resistors are often useful to steer an input pin to a known state if no input is present. Pins configured as pinMode(pin, INPUT) with nothing connected to them, or with wires connected to them that are not connected to other circuits, report seemingly random changes in pin state, picking up electrical noise from the environment, or capacitively coupling the state of a nearby pin. This makes the pins useful for such tasks as implementing a capacitive touch sensor or reading an LED as a photodiode. This means that it takes very little current to switch the input pin from one state to another.
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Input pins make extremely small demands on the circuit that they are sampling, equivalent to a series resistor of 100 megaohm in front of the pin. Pins configured this way are said to be in a high-impedance state. Pins Configured as INPUTĪrduino pins are by default configured as inputs, so they do not need to be explicitly declared as inputs with pinMode() when you are using them as inputs. It is important to note that a majority of Arduino analog pins, may be configured, and used, in exactly the same manner as digital pins. We will explain the functioning of the pins in those modes. The pins on the Arduino board can be configured as either inputs or outputs.
