Blink Fast LED - Arduino simulator- Basic Example - 2022

Introduction

In this article, you are going to learn how to blink Fast LEDs with different colours!

We are going to need just bare minimum materials like Fast LEDs, Arduino UNO and connecting wires.

These trending Fast LEDs can be used for various applications like status indicators.

For example

• we can indicate the temperature of water saying high, low and medium with 3 different colours like blue, green and red.
• To indicate the distance between wall and your vehicle during parking.You can alert the driver with a red symbol when he is very near to the wall.
• Air quality indication with red LED showing the worst
• Moisture level indication in garden

And many other applications using only 1 pin of Arduino to control colours. You will see how this can be done in the sections further.

Connection Diagram

code

#include <FastLED.h>
// How many leds in your strip?
#define NUM_LEDS 1
// For led chips like WS2812, which have a data line, ground, and power, you just
// need to define DATA_PIN.  For led chipsets that are SPI based (four wires - data, clock,
// ground, and power), like the LPD8806 define both DATA_PIN and CLOCK_PIN
// Clock pin only needed for SPI based chipsets when not using hardware SPI
#define DATA_PIN 3
#define CLOCK_PIN 13
// Define the array of leds
CRGB leds[NUM_LEDS];
void setup() {
// Uncomment/edit one of the following lines for your leds arrangement.
// ## Clockless types ##
FastLED.addLeds<NEOPIXEL, DATA_PIN>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is assumed
// FastLED.addLeds<SM16703, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<TM1829, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<TM1812, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<TM1809, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<TM1804, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<TM1803, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<UCS1903, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<UCS1903B, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<UCS1904, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<UCS2903, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2812, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2852, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2812B, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<GS1903, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<SK6812, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<SK6822, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<APA106, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<PL9823, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<SK6822, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2811, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2813, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<APA104, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2811_400, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<GE8822, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<GW6205, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<GW6205_400, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<LPD1886, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<LPD1886_8BIT, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// ## Clocked (SPI) types ##
// FastLED.addLeds<LPD6803, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<LPD8806, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // GRB ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2801, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<WS2803, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<SM16716, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
// FastLED.addLeds<P9813, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // BGR ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<DOTSTAR, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // BGR ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<APA102, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // BGR ordering is typical
// FastLED.addLeds<SK9822, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);  // BGR ordering is typical
}
void loop() {
// Turn the LED on, then pause
leds[0] = CRGB::Red;
FastLED.show();
delay(500);
// Now turn the LED off, then pause
leds[0] = CRGB::Green;
FastLED.show();
delay(500);
}

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