Perhaps the biggest lesson that I'm learning in interface labs is that one: I can't count, two: attention to detail is crucial or you're going to end up wasting a lot of time. Overall the lab went relatively smoothly, took a second to figure out which side of the potentiometer is ground vs power because the diagram doesn't exactly match up for every potentiometer and the potentiometer in the video is different from the one that I have.

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I found that after my initial upload it didn't seem to work so I ran though a small array of potential bug fixes, making sure that I didn't flip the polarity of my LED, that my wires were configured like the diagram (turns out I was missing a power wire), that my code didn't have errors, that the usb is connected to the board correctly etc.

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Even after fixing the wire issue the potentiometer still didn't seem to be affecting the LED, furthermore the LED didn't seem to be lit at all. I then proceeded to write some debugging code to see if it was an issue with my LED/LED setup or my potentiometer, it was possible that it was just stuck sending 0 in theory. After some Serial.println my potentiometer was indeed working properly, I re-examined my LED and the setup and realized...I had wired it to the wrong pin because of course I had. Once I moved the wire one over it all worked properly and I was able to change the LED brightness via the potentiometer.