RGB LED pin

A simple blinking-light gizmo, made with a four-wire RGB LED and a PIC microcontroller. Definitely "Geek Couture." Currently set for Red/White/Blue for Election Day 2008 (but easily modifiable for other occasions). Complete open-source plans to be made available shortly.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RGB
• LED
• microcontroller
• PIC
• USA
• election

[TheSupertecnology]

here in mexico there are rgb leds that have a very small integrated circuit inside connected to the little wires that have the different colors, inside the led too, and you just have to induct a cc in the led and it will changes its colors in a secuence, and then it will blink too. it´s so amazing!

[FlyByPC]

@TheSupertecnology I've seen those. I like the ones with four wires, since you can control those manually. It is amazing how small a control circuit can be, though.

[AlexM19875]

RGB? White?!

[FlyByPC]

If you turn all three LED elements (Red/Green/Blue) on, it appears more or less white.

[AlexM19875]

Yes, I know but you have red/white/blue instead. why?

[FlyByPC]

That was the color sequence programmed for this particular application. It can basically do any colors -- flickering orange for Hallowe'en etc. The LED has Red, Green, and Blue elements, but the program cycles through Red (red only), White (red+green+blue), and Blue (blue only). This specific program was for US Election Day 2008...

[floskit]

can you give the source code please?

[AlexM19875]

I know, you can do like 16 777 216 colors. I have been working whith RGB my self.

I working on a univeral experemetal board for microcontrollers and it have 4 RGB LEDs for indications. So when the board is in a box with a a window it will be lit up in colors.

[AlexM19875]

@AlexM19875

Aha! sory Iread wrong. You had it SET to red/white/blue. I believed you used red/white/blue insdead for rgb.

hehe, sory my bad

[joebro391]

@FlyByPC ah, i gotchya, i for some reason i was associating it with an IC. I'm gonna get into the arduino microcontroller soon, so i'll learn haha. thanks for all the info. -Joe