What up yo!
Check out my lil IR sensor with a full-color LED (aka RGB). It didn't have to change my code, only replace my potentiometer with my IR sensor and my 3 LEDs with the 1 full-color LED.
Sweetness.
IR sensor light from Lynn WasHere on Vimeo.
p.s. here's the code:
/*
* Code for making one potentiometer control 3 LEDs, red, grn and blu, or one tri-color LED
* The program cross-fades from red to grn, grn to blu, and blu to red
* Debugging code assumes Arduino 0004, as it uses Serial.begin()-style functions
* Clay Shirky <clay.shirky@nyu.edu>
*/
// INPUT: Potentiometer should be connected to 5V and GND
int potPin = 0; // Potentiometer output connected to analog pin 3
int potVal = 0; // Variable to store the input from the potentiometer
// OUTPUT: Use digital pins 9-11, the Pulse-width Modulation (PWM) pins
// LED's cathodes should be connected to digital GND
int redPin = 9; // Red LED, connected to digital pin 9
int grnPin = 10; // Green LED, connected to digital pin 10
int bluPin = 11; // Blue LED, connected to digital pin 11
// Program variables
int redVal = 0; // Variables to store the values to send to the pins
int grnVal = 0;
int bluVal = 0;
int DEBUG = 1; // Set to 1 to turn on debugging output
void setup()
{
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT); // sets the pins as output
pinMode(grnPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(bluPin, OUTPUT);
if (DEBUG) { // If we want to see the pin values for debugging...
Serial.begin(9600); // ...set up the serial ouput in 0004 format
}
}
// Main program
void loop()
{
potVal = analogRead(potPin); // read the potentiometer value at the input pin
if (potVal < 341) // Lowest third of the potentiometer's range (0-340)
{
potVal = (potVal * 3) / 4; // Normalize to 0-255
redVal = 256 - potVal; // Red from full to off
grnVal = potVal; // Green from off to full
bluVal = 1; // Blue off
}
else if (potVal < 682) // Middle third of potentiometer's range (341-681)
{
potVal = ( (potVal-341) * 3) / 4; // Normalize to 0-255
redVal = 1; // Red off
grnVal = 256 - potVal; // Green from full to off
bluVal = potVal; // Blue from off to full
}
else // Upper third of potentiometer"s range (682-1023)
{
potVal = ( (potVal-683) * 3) / 4; // Normalize to 0-255
redVal = potVal; // Red from off to full
grnVal = 1; // Green off
bluVal = 256 - potVal; // Blue from full to off
}
analogWrite(redPin, redVal); // Write values to LED pins
analogWrite(grnPin, grnVal);
analogWrite(bluPin, bluVal);
if (DEBUG) { // If we want to read the output
DEBUG += 1; // Increment the DEBUG counter
if (DEBUG > 100) // Print every hundred loops
{
DEBUG = 1; // Reset the counter
// Serial output using 0004-style functions
Serial.print("R:"); // Indicate that output is red value
Serial.print(redVal); // Print red value
Serial.print("\t"); // Print a tab
Serial.print("G:"); // Repeat for grn and blu...
Serial.print(grnVal);
Serial.print("\t");
Serial.print("B:");
Serial.println(bluVal); // println, to end with a carriage return
}
}
}
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