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2.3 RGB LED¶
Overview¶
In this lesson, you will learn about how to use RGB LED. A RGB LED packages three LEDs in red, green and blue into one transparent or semitransparent plastic shell. It displays a broad array of colors by changing the input voltage of three pins and adding the three colors together in different ways. As is said in a statistic, RGB LED can create 16,777,216 different colors.
Components Required¶
Fritzing Circuit¶
Here we input a value between 0 and 255 to the three pins of the RGB LED to make it display different colors. After connecting the pins of R, G, and B to a current limiting resistor, connect them to the pin 9, pin 10, and pin 11 respectively. The longest pin (GND) of the LED connects to the GND of the Mega 2560. When the three pins are given different PWM values, the RGB LED will display different colors.
Schematic Diagram¶
Code¶
Note
You can open the file
2.3_rgbLed.ino
under the path ofsunfounder_vincent_kit_for_arduino\code\2.3_rgbLed
directly.Or copy this code into Arduino IDE.
Code Analysis¶
In this example, the function used to assign values to the three pins of RGB is packaged in an independent subfunction color().
void color (unsigned char red, unsigned char green, unsigned char blue)// the color generating function
{
analogWrite(redPin, red);
analogWrite(greenPin, green);
analogWrite(bluePin, blue);
}
In loop(), RGB value works as an input argument to call the function color() to realize that the RGB can emit different colors.
void loop() // run over and over again
{
color(255, 0, 0); // turn the RGB LED red
delay(1000); // delay for 1 second
color(0,255, 0); // turn the RGB LED green
delay(1000); // delay for 1 second
color(0, 0, 255); // turn the RGB LED blue
delay(1000); // delay for 1 second
// ...
}