Arduino LED Blink, Fade and Traffic Lights for Beginners
by AYassineLebouiha in Circuits > Arduino
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Arduino LED Blink, Fade and Traffic Lights for Beginners
Hi Everyone, Just started this, sorry for the low quality video, in this instructables I showed how to blink, fade a simple LED, then I did a traffic lights project.
Hope you enjoy it, any suggestions or advice is welcome, Thanks
Prepare Your Equipement
You'll need:
1-Arduino Uno
2- 6xLEDs (2 reds, 2 oranges and 2 greens)
3-Jump wires
4-breadboard
6- 6x1kohm Resistors
Simple Blink
The schematic is in the picture
Here's the code
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//Simple LED blinking program
//SurtrTech Youtube Channel
const int L1 = 2; //Declaring LED pin
void setup() {
pinMode(L1, OUTPUT); //Setting pin mode }
void loop() {
digitalWrite(L1, HIGH); //Turn on led delay(1000); // On time in miliseconds digitalWrite(L1, LOW); //Turn off led delay(1000); //Off time
}
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LED Fading
In this part you can use the same components but you have to change the pin to an pwm pin.
I used the pin number 3 from the pwm output of the arduino
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//Simple LED blinking program
//SurtrTech Youtube Channel
const int L1 = 3; // Led pin (must use a pwm output)
void setup() {
pinMode(L1,OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
for (int fadeValue = 0 ; fadeValue <= 255; fadeValue += 5) { // A loop that goes from 0 to 255 which is 0V to 5V in an pwm output (3)
analogWrite(L1, fadeValue); // The led receive the value from 0 to 255
delay(100); //Time in miliseconds }
for (int fadeValue = 255 ; fadeValue >= 0; fadeValue -= 5) { // Same loop but from highest value to lowest value analogWrite(L1, fadeValue); // The led receive the value from 255 to 0
delay(100); }
}
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Traffic Lights
You'll need 6 LEDs (2 Reds,2 Oranges and 2 Greens)
You separate them in 2 groups (Red1, Orange1 and Green1) then (Red2, Orange2 and Green2)
You connect them like before using this setup:
Pin 2 Red1 Pin 3 Orange1 Pin 4 Green1 Pin 5 Red2 Pin 6 Orange2 Pin 7 Green2
This is the code
//Traffic lights using 6 LEDs
//SurtrTech Youtube Channel //Modified by LEBOUIHA const int L1 = 2; // Declaring 6 LEDs output 2,3 and for are for the light1 and
const int L2 = 3; // 5,6 and 7 are for the light 2 const int L3 = 4; const int L4 = 5; const int L5 = 6; const int L6 = 7;
void setup() {
pinMode(L1, OUTPUT); //Red 1 pinMode(L2, OUTPUT); //Orange 1 pinMode(L3, OUTPUT); //Green 1 pinMode(L4, OUTPUT); //Red 2 pinMode(L5, OUTPUT); //Orange 2 pinMode(L6, OUTPUT); //Green 2 }
void loop() {
digitalWrite(L1, HIGH); // You chose which two you want to turn on as you like, and you must turn off the others digitalWrite(L6, HIGH); // And you repeat digitalWrite(L2, LOW); digitalWrite(L5, LOW); digitalWrite(L3, LOW); digitalWrite(L4, LOW); delay(4000); // Time in miliseconds
digitalWrite(L1, HIGH); digitalWrite(L6, LOW); digitalWrite(L2, LOW); digitalWrite(L5, HIGH); digitalWrite(L3, LOW); digitalWrite(L4, LOW); delay(2000);
digitalWrite(L1, HIGH); digitalWrite(L6, LOW); digitalWrite(L2, LOW); digitalWrite(L5, LOW); digitalWrite(L3, LOW); digitalWrite(L4, HIGH); delay(1000);
digitalWrite(L1, LOW); digitalWrite(L6, LOW); digitalWrite(L2, LOW); digitalWrite(L5, LOW); digitalWrite(L3, HIGH); digitalWrite(L4, HIGH); delay(4000);
digitalWrite(L1, LOW); digitalWrite(L6, LOW); digitalWrite(L2, HIGH); digitalWrite(L5, LOW); digitalWrite(L3, LOW); digitalWrite(L4, HIGH); delay(2000);
digitalWrite(L1, HIGH); digitalWrite(L6, LOW); digitalWrite(L2, LOW); digitalWrite(L5, LOW); digitalWrite(L3, LOW); digitalWrite(L4, HIGH); delay(1000); }