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DIY Light Show


I've decided to try posting the first part as a separate P2PU Challenge page:

http://p2pu.org/en/groups/2-writing-html-by-hand-2/

Bonus for this group:

The examples above used digitalWrite( pin, HIGH ) or digitalWrite( pin, LOW ) to turn a light completely on or completely off, respectively.

- Connect your LED to a pin with a tilde mark (looks like ~). For example, pin 9. These pins can be used for digital (completely on/off signal) or analog (variable signal).

- Revise your code to use pin 9. Don't forget to update the pin number in the line pinMode(pin, OUTPUT);

- Instead of digitalWrite(pin, HIGH);, use analogWrite(pin, value); to set the light between completely on and off.   In this case, instead of HIGH or LOW, you must use a number value between 0 and 255. Lower values will fail to turn on the LED at all. Why is that?

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