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Hi, welcome, this is Clemens at Elektor. In this video I will show you how to download something from GitHub. If you use microcontrollers, play with Arduino or do other things that involve open source software, you will most certainly have come across GitHub. GitHub has become _the_ place for people to share source code for all sorts of open source applications, ranging from simple single-file Arduino sketches to huge cloud applications consisting of thousands of files, but also other things like electronics design files or simply text documents. GitHub is a hub for Git. Git is a so-called versioning system which means that it keeps track of changes made to the documents that it knows of. The main purpose of Git and GitHub is to allow groups of people to work together on the same software project. Because GitHub is a tool for professionaland production quality software development, it has lots of functions and options that most people never need, and that make it complicated. At Elektor also we publish our code on GitHub and then tell people to download it from there. We then often get the question: "But _how_ do you download something from GitHub?" Now this may seem like a silly question to experienced users, but it is true you cannot just download a file that you see listed in a repository. There is no Save or Download button and when you click on a file it is opened in a browser and not downloaded. And if you right-click on a file and save it you end up with a file containing HTML code and not the content you expected. Actually, you can download a file if you open it in 'raw' mode first and then right-click to save it as a file but this is, of course, undoable when there are many files. Now called 'Code' button! The thing is that there *is* an easy download Code button, but you can only see it when you are in the root of the repository. So, click the root of the repository to get there. Now it is easy. Just click the green button labeled 'Code'. When you do that, you might get confused by the surprising options about cloning with HTTPS or open it on your desktop or download ZIP, here you just click 'Download ZIP' and ignore the other stuff. You don't need to sign in or have an account, just ignore that message. So, that's it? Well... that depends. The name of the file you downloaded will end with '-master'. When you unpack it, you will get a folder with the same name. Most of the time this doesn't really matter, but it does when the download happens to be an Arduino sketch. For the Arduino IDE the name of the dot INO file ('.INO') must be the same as the name of the folder that it is in. The solution is simple: remove te '-master' part by renaming the folder. Usually, you do...