Description: Here two soldered POT(entiometers) are wired to a breadboard and are controlling the dimming of three LED lights under a homemade diffuser. I changed a given code around so that I could fade two LED's (blue/green) independently from the red LED with my two POT's.
Components:
(1) Breadboard; Arduino Board; bottle cap; usb wire; black ground wire; tissue cup
(2) Rubber Bands; bathroom tissues; potentiometers; yellow wires redirecting power from the POT's; Red Wires feeding current into the POT's; Brown wires grounding the POT's
(3) 220-ohm resistors; yellow wires feeding the resistors; blue wires grounding the LEDs; Differently-colored LEDs
Code:
/*
* one pot dims, the other pot changes the blinking rate
* modification of the following
* http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput
*/
int pot1Pin = 2; // select the input pin for the potentiometer 1
int pot2Pin = 4; // select the input pin for the potentiometer 2
int pot1Val = 0; // variable to store the value coming from pot 1
int pot2Val = 0; // variable to store the value coming from pot 2
int led1Pin = 9; // select the pin for the LED 1
int led2Pin = 10; // select the pin for the LED 2
int led3Pin = 11;
void setup() {
pinMode(led1Pin, OUTPUT); // declare the led1Pin as an OUTPUT
pinMode(led2Pin, OUTPUT); // declare the led2Pin as an OUTPUT
pinMode(led3Pin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
pot1Val = analogRead(pot1Pin); // read the value from pot 1, between 0 - 1024, for dimming
pot2Val = analogRead(pot2Pin); // read the value from pot 2, between 0 - 1024, for blinking
analogWrite(led2Pin, pot1Val/4); // dim LED to value from pot1
analogWrite(led3Pin, pot1Val/4);
analogWrite(led1Pin, pot2Val/4);
// delay(pot2Val); // stop the program for some time, meaning, LED is on for this time
// analogWrite(led2Pin, 0); // dim LED to completely dark (zero)
// delay(pot2Val); // stop the program for some time, meaning, LED is OFF for this time
}
Images:
Red
Comments
at first, i had no idea what
at first, i had no idea what you meant my entiometers. Then I realized what you were doing :) nice job!