Lab 1: Blinking LED

To familiarize ourselves with building circuits and the Arduino hardware/software. In this lab, we use the Arduino micro-controller to control an LED and make it blink at different rates, depending on what we code.

 

 

/*

 ** Blink **

 * Turns an LED on and off with varying time(different speeds depending on what we code) repeatedly.

 * In this case, it is on for .5 sec and off for 1.25 sec.

 *   -- Taken from the Blink example --

 */

 

void setup() {                

  // initialize the digital pin as an output.

  // Pin 13 has an LED connected on most Arduino boards:

  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);     

}

 

void loop() {

  digitalWrite(13, HIGH);   // set the LED on

  delay(500);              // wait for .5 second (LED on)

  digitalWrite(13, LOW);    // set the LED off

  delay(1250);              // wait for 1.25 seconds (LED off)

}