Arduino Counting While Counting

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I am extremely new to programming and wanted to work with a grid which displays LEDs going from left to right along each row and down each column one at a time. I've made the circuit board and had a try at the code, however I am confusing myself. I would like to count from down from 12 to 4, but after each count I want to call a new count which counts from 4 to 0. Did I do this correctly?

HectorKochFinalProject.ino (617 Bytes)

Final Project.pdf (18.2 KB)

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I've added some comments to your code below:

// assign pins 0 through 12
int i;
int l;
// Count for P2
for(i=0;i<=4;i++);  // you can't have command like this outside a function
// Count for P1
for(l=5;<=12;kl++);  // ditto, also these do nothing. And what's that letter k doing there?

void setup() {                
// Set pins to outputs
pinMode(i, OUTPUT): //I think these should have been inside the for-loop you attempted above. Also, that's a colon - should be a semicolon
pinMode(l, OUTPUT); // also be careful using pins 0 and 1 because they are connected to USB serial. 
}

// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop() {
  // First loop for P1
  for(l=12,l>=8,l--);  //They shouldn't be commas and you don't want that semicolon at the end
  {
    digitalWrite(l, HIGH);
    delay(2500);
    digitalWrite(l, LOW);
    // The loop for P2 after each consequetive count from P1
      for(i=o,i<=4,i++)   //again these shouldn't be commas, and that should be a zero not a lower case O
      {
        digitalWrite(i, HIGH);
        delay(500);
        digitalWrite(i, LOW);
      }
  }
}
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Referring to the Original Post ...

In this line

for(i=o,i<=4,i++)

you have an 'o' when I think you meant to have a '0' (zero).

And it counts from 0 to 4 whereas your text says you want to count from 4 to 0 - which would be like this

for(i = 4; i >= 0; i --)

And note how a little white-space makes code much easier to read.

...R
Edited to change commas to semi-colons in the FOR loop

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Robin - you might like to review your for loop and its use of commas ...

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UKHeliBob:
Robin - you might like to review your for loop and its use of commas ...

Many thanks. I had missed that in the OP's code.

...R