Hi All I've just dipped my toes into the wonderful world of electronics. Primarily for use on Dioramas and Table Top Gaming terrain. I'm using an Uno, and trying to have 3 things happen: Function 1: 5 x RGB Led's, all on the same line, fading between Green and Yellow. Function 2: 2 x Blue LED's,…

The switches aren't going to work as you have them at the moment. You want them to control leds for functions 2 and 3. You will need to set them up as inputs, read their state and light the leds they control appropriately. It doesn't make sense to have the switches in line with the blue leds in oth…

Try starting with some simpler code. You have done the same thing as every other beginner and tried to write the whole thing up front. Just read the state of the switches using digitalRead and depending on what you get, turn LEDs on or off. Use INPUT_PULLUP for the pinMode for the switches. D0 an…

Ok, I've moved the switches to Pins 2 and 4. I've managed to get the switches to operate the blue lights as intended, i.e when each switch is powered on, the LED lights, and when powered off, it turns off. Furthermore, I've managed to get the second LED to shine Red on boot up with both switches i…

The first issue is simple. There is nothing in your code that ever turns the green light off. So if you start in red mode and then change, the green led comes on and stays on so even if both switches are released, it'll stay yellow. The second issue is more subtle. If one switch or the other is pre…

Strangely enough I managed to solve it! All I had to do was replace the digitalWrites in && and || sections with RGB statements: Working code as follows: int ooze_red_light_pin= 11; int ooze_blue_light_pin = 10; int ooze_green_light_pin = 9; int blue_led_1_pin = 7; int blue_led_2_pin = 8; int red_…

Much easier! Why have RGB functions and ignore them :wink:

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darksp3ctre September 12, 2020, 2:08pm 3

Thanks for the speedy reply

I've adjusted the diagram, attached.

I'm still unsure of how to write the code for it though?

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