Testing the alarm system
We are now ready to test our simple alarm system. Just grab the code for this project (either from the preceding code or the GitHub repository of the book) and put it into your Arduino IDE.
In the IDE, choose the right board type (for example, Arduino Uno) and also the correct serial port.
You can now upload the code to the board. Once it is done, simply pass your hand in front of the PIR motion sensor; the alarm should go off immediately. Then, simply press the push button to stop it.
To illustrate the behavior of the alarm, I simply used a battery pack to make it work when it is not connected to my computer. The following is the result when the alarm goes off:
If this works as expected, congratulations, you just built your ...
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