Monday, March 19, 2018

No Parts Arduino Stroboscope - Control LED Blink rate with Serial Monitor

In this post I'm coding for Arduino program that can control blink rate of an LED.

I tried to make it very simple.

Here you can see minimum hardware used:

Arduino UNO
Arduino USB cable
White LED
Laptop with Arduino IDE

I chose Arduino UNO from the drop down menu.

Then opened Blink example.

And then I got the code that reads serial monitor to control LED and changed it to control blink rate.

/*
Blink
Turns on an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.

*/

int led = 8;
int MyDelay = 50 ;
// the setup routine runs once when you press reset:
void setup() {
// initialize the digital pin as an output.
pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);

Serial.begin(9600);
while (!Serial);
Serial.println("Input 1 to increase delay on and 2 to decrease delay ");
}
void change_rate() {

if (Serial.available())
{
int state = Serial.parseInt();
if (state == 1)
{

if(MyDelay < 1000 )
MyDelay = MyDelay + 10 ;

Serial.println("Command completed delay increases");
}
if (state == 2)
{


if(MyDelay > 0 )
MyDelay = MyDelay - 10 ;
Serial.println("Command completed delay decreases");
}
}



}

// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop() {

change_rate();

digitalWrite(led, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(10); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(led, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay(MyDelay); // wait for a second





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