Lesson 1 : LED Blinking with Menya IoT kit.

LEDs are small, powerful lights that are used in many different applications. To start, we will work on blinking an LED, the Hello World of micro controllers.

It is as simple as turning a light on and off😎. Establishing this important baseline will give you a solid foundation as we work towards experiments that are more complex.

Note − To find out the polarity of an LED, look at it closely. The shorter of the two legs, towards the flat edge of the bulb indicates the negative terminal.

Circuit diagram.

With Menya IoT kit, connect as below ; GND to GND, D13 to LED1

Sketch

Open the Arduino IDE software on your computer. Coding in the Arduino language will control your circuit. Open the new sketch File by clicking New.

Sketch

The LED_BUILTIN is the D13 of the arduino Nano embedded on the Menya IoT Kit.

int LED=13;// declare the pin D13 

void setup ()
{
// initialize digital pin D13 as an output.
pinMode (LED,OUTPUT);
}
// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop ()
{
digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);// turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(1000);// wait for a second
digitalWrite(LED,LOW);//  turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay (1000);// wait for second
}

Code to Note

pinMode(13, OUTPUT) − Before you can use one of Arduino’s pins, you need to tell Arduino Nano whether it is an INPUT or OUTPUT. We use a built-in “function” called pinMode() to do this.

digitalWrite(13, HIGH) − When you are using a pin as an OUTPUT, you can command it to be HIGH (output 5 volts), or LOW (output 0 volts).

After writing all the codes , compile to check if there is no error.

Before upload code , select the board (arduino Nano) , the port (any Number should be visible) and the processor (Atmega328P old bootloa).

Result

You should see your LED turn on and off. If the required output is not seen, make sure you have assembled the circuit correctly, and verified and uploaded the code to your board.

Note : For any difficulties with Menya IoT kit directly post a comment below so that our Team can support you.

If also you are able to Run it Successfully let us know😃.

Experiment 1 : make two LEDs to Turn ON & OFF simultaneously .

Example (Led Red on , Led Green off and vice versa ) and post the code in the comment sections.

Thank You guys!!

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