I'm trying to create an Ardunio LED project which will light up 9 LED's one after each other but the process only starts after an initial 5 second delay.
So this is what I need:
All LED's are off to begin with. After 5 seconds, LED 1 will come on then a pause for 2 seconds then LED 2 will come on, pause for 2 seconds, LED 3 will come on, pause for 2 seconds and repeat this process until we reach LED 8
After 16 seconds:
LED 8 needs to come on and blink off and on for half a second (500ms) and this needs to continue blinking
LED 9 (at the same time as LED 8) needs to come on and blink off and on for 1.5 seconds (1500ms) and this needs to continue blinking
At this point LED's 8 and 9 will need to continue to blink off and on whilst LED's number 1 through 7 will need to stay constantly on.
I am trying to work out how best to do this using timers and its doing my head in!!
Can this be done using an Arduino as its quite a complex timing problem involving multiple LED's.
Anyone be kind enough to layout some basic code to help me??
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From what you say, a simple sketch using delay() should surfice. But say now if you plan for the sketch to do any more than that. Even checking a button to see if it has been pressed counts as doing something else.
pinMode() to set each of the pins to OUTPUT in setup().
digitalWrite() to switch a led on/HIGH or off/LOW
delay() to pause.
The sequence for LEDs 1 to 7 occurs only once, so put that in setup().
The sequence for LEDs 8 & 9 repeats, so put that into loop(). The total of all the delays in loop() should be 3000ms. During that time, led 9 will flash on and off once and led 8 will flash on and off 3 times.