Arduino Tutorial: LED Sequential Control- Beginner Project

Arduino Tutorial: LED Sequential Control- Beginner Project
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Link to Arduino IDE: www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Link to Sketch for this project: www.dropbox.com/s/bivwdnehp7l...
Today I am going to show you guys a very simple arduino project for beginners. We’re going to get three different LEDs to turn on and turn off in a simple sequence, like you see here.
For this, you’re going to need an Arduino Uno or similar Arduino board, a breadboard (preferably with a positive and negative rail like this one), four breadboard jumper wires, a USB cable to for the Uno, three LEDs of different colors(here we are using Blue, Red and Green) and 3 220ohm resistors. Now we’re using 220ohm resistors, because they seem to work best with the LEDs we have- but you could use different resistors, depending on your LEDs and your circuit. I’ve put a link to an inexpensive arduino kit that contains all these components in the description below, in case you’re looking to get an arduino uno and all the basic components for this tutorial.
So lets first setup the hardware. The first step is to establish a common ground. To do this, use a jumper wire to connect the Ground pin on the arduino to the negative rail on the breadboard. This allows all the LEDs to use the ground pin on the arduino. Now we’ll insert the resistors into the breadboard. Space the resistors out with one leg connected to the the negative rail. Now its time to insert the LEDs. Before inserting the LEDs, its important to note that the longer of the two leads on most through-hole LEDs is the positive leads. Connecting it the wrong way, will cause this circuit to not work. Connect the negative lead of the LED to the horizontal rail on which the resistor is connected and connect the positive lead to an adjacent rail. Repeat this process for all three LEDs. Now its time to complete the circuit. We are going to use output ports 13, 12 and 11 for the input signal. Connect the positive lead of the LED on the right to pin 13, the LED in the center to 12 and the LED on the left to pin 11. The circuit is now complete. Power on the Arduino Uno by connecting it to your computer using the USB cable. The LEDs on the board turn on and the board powers up.
Before we work on our sketch, make sure to download the Arduino IDE for your specific operating system. I’ll leave a link to where you can download this software, in the description below. Once you’ve downloaded and installed the arduino IDE, go ahead and download the Sketch to run this program, using the link I’ve put in the description.
www.dropbox.com/s/bivwdnehp7l...
Open the downloaded file. The program first creates 3 variables. LED1, LED2 and LED3. This allows us to change the output pins, without having to modify the entire program. The code in the setup part of the program tells the arduino that pins 13, 12 and 11 will be outputs. The loop portion of the program is where the actual instructions live. The first three digitalwrite functions turn on one LED at a time with a 200ms delay between each of them turning on. The next three digitalwrite functions turn off the leds with a 300ms delay between each LED. Now you can change the delay between each LED to change the rhythm of the LEDs turning on and off. I’ve found that using 200ms and 300ms gives it a nice smooth rhythm. Now you’re ready to upload the program to the board. Now click on the Tools tab of the Arduino Window, make sure the Arduino Uno is selected as your board and make sure you select the COM port your board is connected to. Most of the times there will be one COM port available and that will be the one you need to select. Click on the upload button on the top left hand corner of the screen to upload the program to the Uno. A green progress bar on the lower right hand corner will indicate upload progress. And unless any errors appear in the black message bar at the bottom of the screen, your board should now be running the program and the LEDs should be turning on and off like you can see here.
Hope this tutorial was useful. Please hit LIKE for more Arduino tutorials and subscribe to stay tuned.

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I need program for this

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A true beginner's guide for beginners! Fed up with so many that assume just because you are new to Arduino you must have a degree in programming. This was like a breath of fresh air :-) I've subscribed!

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excuse me i cant realy open the file

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@@thirdieacegala5532 The first two work for me.
I don't know about the dropbox file as I can't remember my login :-)

[@seminoletechtube]

Planning to teach electronics and animatronics using Arduino at my high school. I added more leds and modified the IDE sketch. It worked. Thanks for your efforts.

[@bdhoff72]

This is a great basic tutorial. I'm just getting started with Arduino and this helped me understand how to work with pins via code.

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Great tutorial, easy to understand, and fun to make (and I even added in a fourth light). Thanks for making this video.

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Watching this 2.5 years later and just HOPING the dropbox would be up. It was ! Awesome man. Got it working.

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Awesome. My Arduino worked straight out of the box using this tutorial.

[@elizabethh8362]

You made this so easy, thank you so much! So much joy to see it light up.

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Thank you for explaining every step so well in terms of why it must be done and not just handing out a recipe. Good pacing too, videos feel succinct. Cheers.

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Thank you for uploading this! i just got my first arduino kit yesterday and your video helped me get my first project done. You've got a new subscriber here, I hope that there'll be new videos like this coming soon.

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Thanks for this... Bought my 8 year old son an Arduino starter for Christmas and thanks to this video we were able to get our first project up and running before Christmas dinner!!

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The way you say things makes the whole idea click with my brain. Many thanks !

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This was more helpful than the 12 other tutorials I just watched combined. Thank you!

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+Bridgette H Glad it helped. Please subscribe

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I found that too! Many other 'beginner' tutorials are unnecessarily complex and include the need to use a bunch of other stuff, this was simple yet effective, and I could do it within 10 minutes of opening my arduino kit. Love it!

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I found this video very useful. I am just starting off with Arduino and this is a great first project. Your video was extremely simple to comprehend and I got this running in under 10 minutes. Thank you for taking the time to make such an incredible video.

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how much have you learned?

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Thank you for the beautiful introduction to Arduino. This is my first time and everything you said worked the first time.

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What a great tutorial...I am a newbie on arduino I have watch at least 60 videos on how to connect multiple modules on arduino...This video is just the best...

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No time wasted, concise and easy to understand. Subbed good sir!

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So easy and well explained. Thank you sir!

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I think you did a great job! Got my first Uno today and this project was perfect for next level of blink :)

[@DroneHow]

+Bostish2 Thanks! Glad you found it useful. Please subscribe to stay tuned

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You make it sooo simple. Thanks man.
Keep it up.

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This was the best video I could find on how to do it.Thank you :) Managed to do it right after and tweaked a bit with the code.

[@BenSprecher]

Wonderful first project with my 6 year old daughter - thank you! So clear and simple. Code was easy to read and explain.

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Thank you so much dude, this is helping me going through my Mechatronics class!

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Great beginner tutorial! I went from knowing nothing about Arduino to knowing how to code flashing LED's! Please make more.

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Thanks tHIS Helped me a lot !!!i bought my first kit last week and this helped a lot to do more than just the basic steps!!

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Explained absolutely so perfect

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Good video. This helped me out alot. I recently bought an Arduino kit because i like programming. This helped alot with the basics

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This is an awesome introduction project. Thank you so much!

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Much appreciated. Just now getting into Arduino, and this was a great start. Thanks, and sub'd!

[@dienuss292]

thanks dude, just needed the thing with the breadboard for school so this helped a lot

[@Defirence]

Amazing video, thank you! I upped the count to 5 and wrote in some more code from the already-existing Sketch, awesome little project!!

[@adilski]

You are a great teacher. Great tutorial!

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just got an Ardoino. this was my first project. thank you so much for the great explanation!

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Please my recent tutorial on using LEDs with arduino. Maybe you will find it helpful

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nice job. I am learning it with my 11 year old and your pace is perfect. Keep up the good work!

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Thanks a million my friend, it was my first work in arduino to the school.

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Nice and simple, I needed a refresher.

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Your's worked!! Thank you I learned that yes it blinks but I have to program it to do what you are showing in the video wow that's lots of work to do on my end!!!

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Thanks for helping me build my very first Arduino Circuit that actually worked 💖🙂

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Thanks for explaining the circuit I was confused with people just making it.

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Me 2

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The project works for me, Thank you very much.

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Such a wonderful tutorial thank you!! :) It's really helping me figure out and learn about these!

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+Broderick McGarvey Glad it helped!

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Great learning video for me. You explained everything good for me. Thank you for the video.

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Great video, love what you help me create!

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Great video. This is the first arduino tutorial I came across that clearly explained most everything I needed to know. And in such a short time. Thank you

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Thank you sir. I imitated this project, only I added 5 more LEDs, plus a fan to keep me cool while gaming.

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wow

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Thank you for this helpful video. Finally found a video worth watching. My 8 year old son loves to work on Raspberry pi and
Arduino. He is using Moonshot Jr's Embedded Learner Board for learning the tech complexities on this Arduino driven Board.

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Very good and clear video! Thanks

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works flawlessly .. thanks !

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THANK YOU SO MUCH IT HELPED ME A LOT!!

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Glad it helped. Please subscribe for more how to videos!

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this is really cool, i am brand new to Arduino but i simply modified the code to add more leds into the game. i now have 6 leds and they still work like intended its reallt cool

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most helpful so far thanks

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I GOT IT I CAN BELIEVE IT I GOT IT!!!!Thank You my first Project after it failed because i noticed the less coming from Arduino where also on negative i moved them in front of l.e.d.’s and it worked

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Was a great one ❤

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Perfect! First try!

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very well and clear explanation and thanks for providing link to download the code, I would appreciate you making more Arduino videos

[@Teyros]

Worked! awesome thank you very much!

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loved it. you should do a video on how to make your own circuts.

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Yay! I did it. Success.

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Nice tutorial, thank you 🥰

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I got my first arduino board today, your tutorial is simple and easy to follow, thank you :)

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amazing !!! It really works

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works nicely

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Thank you so much for your tuturial sir ❤ we are already done with our activities this helps us very much💗

[@plaguedoct0r]

Woohoo! Watching my very own LEDs blink on and off right now! What an exciting thing it is for something so seemingly simple :D
Next step, change the timing all on my own :O
(Edit, it worked! Hooray!)

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