Multiple led strips and a button

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Hello guys, I'm a design student and totally new to this and very bad at coding for now. So my project is a lamp and it consists of 3 different length and different color neopixel strips, 3 same color single neopixel leds and a touch sensor. The sensor has to control everything: one touch turns on the strips, two touches turn on the single leds and a long touch turns everything off. I have a sort of working code, but it only turns on one strip and turns it off after a while, I need the leds to work until they are turned off. I hope my explanation is clear enough. I tried to do it by myself but it proved useless. I would be insanely thankful if you could help.
This is the code that I have:

#include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h>
#define PIN 3
#define NUMPIXELS 22
int touch = 8;  
Adafruit_NeoPixel pixels = Adafruit_NeoPixel(NUMPIXELS, PIN, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);
int delayval = 50; 



void setup() {
  pixels.begin();
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(touch, INPUT);
#if defined(__AVR_ATtiny85__) && (F_CPU == 160000000000000)
  clock_prescale_set(clock_div_1);
#endif
  pixels.begin(); 
}



void loop() {

   pixels.clear(); 
  int touchValue = digitalRead(touch);
  if (touchValue == HIGH){
    Serial.println("touched");
    for(int i=0; i<NUMPIXELS; i++) { 
      pixels.show();   
  for(int i=0;i<NUMPIXELS;i++){
    pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(200,0,95)); 
    pixels.show(); 
    delay(delayval); 
   }

   }
   
   }else{
    
    Serial.println("not touched");
     for(int i=0; i<NUMPIXELS; i++) {
  
      pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(0, 0, 0));
  
      pixels.show();   
  
    }
  }
  delay(10);

}

Strip one is connected to pin 3 and has 22 leds
Strip two is connected to pin 5 and has 36 leds
Strip three is connected to pin 6 and has 53 leds
Single led one is connected to pin 9
Single led two is connected to pin 10
Single led three is connected to pin 11
The button is pin 8

2

:astonished:

160,000,000,000,000

3

160000000 megahertz

Must be a knew chinese knock off

4

I wasn't even sure what that meant, you see, I found two working codes online (the strip code and the button code) and combined them, it worked so I went with it. Now I just reached a standstill. Like I said, a complete beginner, sorry :smiley:

5

The members said that the frequency in your code do not looks realistic. Where do you find it?

6

What do you expecting from the forum?

Your code is very far from what you described in the post #1. You want to connect and manage 6 different strips or leds, and right now there is only one in the code.
If you have a specific questions - forum can help you, but do not expect that someone will write code for you.

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You can make the code easier to read by using ctrl-T in the IDE to auto format the code. Then the indentation follows a standard pattern that people find much easier to follow.

void loop() {
  pixels.clear();
  int touchValue = digitalRead(touch);
  if (touchValue == HIGH) {
    Serial.println("touched");
    for (int i = 0; i < NUMPIXELS; i++) {
      pixels.show();
      for (int i = 0; i < NUMPIXELS; i++) {
        pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(200, 0, 95));
        pixels.show();
        delay(delayval);
      }
    }
  } else {
    Serial.println("not touched");
    for (int i = 0; i < NUMPIXELS; i++) {
      pixels.setPixelColor(i, pixels.Color(0, 0, 0));
      pixels.show();
    }
  }
  delay(10);
}
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