Published August 17, 2020

Spaceship Interface

This is how to make Arduino Project 2.

BeginnerFull instructions provided45 minutes267

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Through Hole Resistor, 10 ohm

Resistor 220 ohm

LED (generic)

Jumper wires (generic)

C&K Switches PTS 645 Series Switch

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Breadboard, 270 Pin

Story

This is how you build a spaceship interface. All components were used from the Arduino Starter Kit.

Just like the last project, You will need to first connect the positive and negative wires. The positive one from 5 volts to the positive tramline and the negative one from the negative tramline to ground.

Then take 3 220 ohms resistors and connect them from the negative tramline to any pin on the breadboard. Make sure that the resistors are at least 3 line apart.

Next take your 3 LED's and connect the cathode (short leg) and connect it to the same line as your 220 ohms resistor. Connect the anode (long leg) on the line above. Next, take a generic wire and connect it from the same line as the anode, to pin squiggly 5 (PWM 5) on the Uno board. Do the same with the other LED's but connect one of the LED's to pin squiggly 4 (PWM 4) and the other to pin squiggly 3 (PWM 3).

This is the complicated part. You may need to keep switching back and forth between the picture and video and this document. If you use the photo or video, then the I part I will be explaining is the part on the bottom on the picture.

First, you have to connect a small positive wire from the positive tramline to any line on the breadboard. Then, on that same line, connect one leg of a switch. One side of the switch has to be on one side of the breadboard and the other side on the other side of the breadboard. Look at the video and picture for more information. Once you have connected the switch in the way that I have, then connect a generic wire from the 3rd leg of the pin (bottom left) to pin 2. By this I mean connect a generic wire from the same line as the 3rd leg of the switch. Lastly, connect a 10 kilo ohms resistor from the same line as the 3rd leg to the negative tramline.

This is a bit confusing so please us the video.

Here is the video

This project also requires code. Please remember to type the code in and upload it as shown in the video.

Spaceship_Interface Code

int switchState = 0;
void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:/
  pinMode(3, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(2, INPUT);
 }

void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  switchState = digitalRead(2);

  if (switchState == LOW)
  {
    digitalWrite(5, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(3, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(4, LOW);
  }
  else
  {
    digitalWrite(5, LOW);
    digitalWrite(3, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(4, HIGH);

    delay(500);
    // toggle the LEDs
    digitalWrite(3, LOW);
    digitalWrite(4, LOW);
    delay(500);
  }



}

Credits

Aadvik Navad YT

2 projects • 1 follower

I'm 11yrs old and love to program and do projects on Arduino and Python. My projects mainly consist of Arduino projects.

Thanks to Suraj Gajendra.

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Spaceship Interface

Spaceship Interface

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Story

Code

Spaceship_Interface Code

Credits

Aadvik Navad YT

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