9_6 Fade LED Up and Back

Fade LED Up and Back

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/* Fade up an LED light from 0-255 brightness and then back down to 0 brightness*/ void setup(){ pinMode(9,OUTPUT); //LED on an analogWrite port. Ports 3,9,10,11 can use analogWrite } void loop(){ /*create a 'counter' variable with a starting value of 0 and, as long as the variable is less than 256, run the code between the curly braces, then increase the value of the 'i' variable by 1 */ for(int i = 0; i < 256; i++){ analogWrite(9,i); //use the value of 'i' to set the brightness of LED 9 delay(25); //wait 25 milliseconds (0.025 seconds) before running the 'for' loop again } /*create a 'counter' variable with a starting value of 255 and, as long as the variable is greater than 0, run the code between the curly braces, then decrease the 'i' variable value by 1*/ for(int i = 255; i > 0; i--){ analogWrite(9,i); //use the value of 'i' to set the brightness of LED 9 delay(25); //wait 25 milliseconds (0.025 seconds) before running the 'for' loop again } //Once the 'for' loops have ended, the void loop will start over, running the 'for' loops again } // (c) 2023 Let's Start Coding. License: www.letsstartcoding.com/bsdlicense

 

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Walkthrough Video

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Challenges

Can you complete the challenges? Change the code in your code editor above. Upload your code to see the effect when you're finished. Complete a challenge? Check it off the list!

Change the delay in the first ‘for’ loop. Predict how this will change the fade before you upload your new code.

Now change the delays in both of the ‘for’ loops. How does that change the program?

Change the variable in the second ‘for’ loop from i to j (another common ‘counter’ variable name). Notice that the ‘i’ variable used in the first ‘for’ loop is totally different from the ‘i’ variable in the second ‘for’ loop.