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PWM LED Fading with Arduino

This document demonstrates how to fade an LED by using pulse width modulation (PWM) with an Arduino board. PWM is a technique that produces analog-like behavior from a digital output by rapidly switching it on and off at different duty cycles. The code causes an LED connected to pin 9 through a resistor to fade in and out by incrementally increasing and decreasing the PWM value over time using analogWrite.

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PWM LED Fading with Arduino

This document demonstrates how to fade an LED by using pulse width modulation (PWM) with an Arduino board. PWM is a technique that produces analog-like behavior from a digital output by rapidly switching it on and off at different duty cycles. The code causes an LED connected to pin 9 through a resistor to fade in and out by incrementally increasing and decreasing the PWM value over time using analogWrite.

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Fading

This example demonstrates the use of analog output (Pulse Width Modulation
(PWM)) to fade an LED. PWM is a technique for getting an analog-like behavior
from a digital output by switching it off and on very fast and with different ratio
between on and off time.

Hardware Required
 Arduino or Genuino board
 LED
 220 ohm resistor
 hook-up wires
 breadboard

Circuit
An LED connected to digital output pin 9 through a 220 ohm resistor.
Schematic

Code
In this example two loops are executed one after the other to increase and then
decrease the value of the output on pin 9.
int ledPin = 9;    // LED connected to digital pin 9

void setup() {
  // nothing happens in setup
}

void loop() {
  // fade in from min to max in increments of 5 points:
  for (int fadeValue = 0 ; fadeValue <= 255; fadeValue += 5) {
    // sets the value (range from 0 to 255):
    analogWrite(ledPin, fadeValue);
    // wait for 30 milliseconds to see the dimming effect
    delay(30);
  }

  // fade out from max to min in increments of 5 points:


  for (int fadeValue = 255 ; fadeValue >= 0; fadeValue -= 5) {
    // sets the value (range from 0 to 255):
    analogWrite(ledPin, fadeValue);
    // wait for 30 milliseconds to see the dimming effect
    delay(30);
  }
}

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