Ambient light

Projects General Guidance
1

Hello,

Recently I dived into the project to make myself ambient light for my computer.
I got the PCB figured out and that works.
But somehow my Arduino UNO isn't sending out 5 volts so the pcb wont work.

I got the concept from this website.

If anyone could help me please

2

You will have to supply more information.

i.e. circuit diagram of how you built your circuit (not a copy of original)

That way, someone may be able to see where you went wrong.

Note...include everything...photo may be helpful also.

3

Sorry for the lack of information.

Here are some pictures of my set up.


For the rest i just copied the script from the website.

4

Hi Diabe,

Your photos are rather blurred. Can you post a link to the led strip and draw a schematic please. Hand-drawn and photographed is fine.

Whe you say the arduino is not putting out 5V, what exactly did you measure, what did you measure it with and what reading did you get? If you were measuring a pwm output using a multimeter, then it may not read 5V, but that does not mean it is faulty.

Paul

5

I tried my best at making the circuit on paper.
Here are the led strips I used only I have the non waterproof version

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6

I tried it with the standard blink sketch but modifiying the port to 11, the leds did go on then.

But somehow they wont work with the other sketch and with the processing script.

7

Try the standard "fade" sketch. Try it for each pin 9, 10 & 11. If all three colours fade as expected, then the Arduino and your circuit are working fine.

8

i've tried the fade with all the outputs and they work like a charm.

Its in the code of either the processing code or the arduino code.

Could it maybe be that the arduino cant comunicate with the processing programm?

9

Diabe:
i've tried the fade with all the outputs and they work like a charm.

Its in the code of either the processing code or the arduino code.

Could it maybe be that the arduino cant comunicate with the processing programm?

Yes, it could maybe any one of those things

10

I'll say first I'm new to Arduino so take this with a pinch of salt.
I've read or seen somewhere that the Arduino will probably not put out 5v when using the USB for power.
An external supply on the 9v would work better on that side.

Haven't tested this myself yet but I'm sure it was on a tutorial I watched.

11

I fixed it. the port was set wrong in the processing script.