The exercice was to to do an intervention using what we’ve learned during last week’s class, aka the use of the push button and the potentiometer with LEDs.
I got in my possession a RGB LED that I’ve really wanted to try out. Basically, I wanted the push button to light on / off the LED, and the potentiometer to change the RGB value of the LED.
The RGB LED got 4 legs, the 2nd leg which is the longest one is (-) while the others legs are (+). I connected the three (+) legs into the digital input, and the (-) into the ground. For each (+) leg, I used a 330Ω resistor.
Then, I connected the push button and the potentiometer, following what I’ve been taught previously. I used a 10KΩ resistor for the push button.
Here is the code ↓↓↓
int redPin = 1;
int greenPin = 2;
int bluePin = 3;
int buttonPin = 7;
int potPin = A0;
int val = 0;
boolean ledState = LOW;
boolean prevBtnState = LOW;
void setup() {
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(bluePin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
pinMode(potPin, INPUT);
}
void setColor (int red, int green, int blue) {
analogWrite(redPin, 255 - red);
analogWrite(greenPin, 255 - green);
analogWrite(bluePin, 255 - blue);
}
void loop() {
boolean btnState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
int val = analogRead(potPin);
if (btnState == HIGH && prevBtnState == LOW) {
if (val < 100) {
setColor(255, 0, 0);
}
if (val >= 100) {
setColor(0, 255, 0);
}
if (val > 400) {
setColor(0, 0, 255);
}
}
digitalWrite(redPin, ledState);
digitalWrite(greenPin, ledState);
digitalWrite(bluePin, ledState);
//prevBtnState = btnState;
}
I’ve followed last week’s code to write this new one, and I researched tutorials (notably on Adafruit) to implement the RGB LED’s part.
However, it didn’t work out exactly the way I wanted since I can’t seem to work out the part where the switch stays on / off until its next state’s change. I can’t figure it out for now but it still works for the most part. Hopefully, as I get more comfortable with Arduino, I’ll get back to it later and solve it.