I have been following your tutorials since 2016, and I have never realized until now that you are the person that sparks my curiosity. You teach me computer programming, mathematics, electronics, and the science of how things work. Looking back, I can see how much I know because of you. Paul, you are the greatest teacher I ever have and for that, I just want to say thank you. And I can't wait for the 9-axis sensor tutorial. :)
I am 72 years Old, In Rivera, Colombia SA, learning Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Esp, Is the first video I have seen with a good teacher a an excelent method. Congratulations!!!!!!
For anyone who is working through this most excellent tutorial - please make sure you adjust your Serial input to "No line ending" otherwise the conditional statements here won't fire. Aside from that, this is 10/10 awesome! Thank you Paul McWhorter! :)
I made it to tutorial 20! I'm really good about getting excited about something then quickly losing interest. I'm proud of myself! There is nothing more exciting then starting a fresh new lesson (with my black iced coffee) and pulling something new out of my kit! Never thought in a million years I'd be spending my Saturday nights doing something like this but I've never been happier!
EXCELLENT! You are almost 1/3 of the way through the class. Then off course, lots of other videos series on this channel, so plenty to keep you buys. I can not think of a more fun way to spend Saturday night, and the great thing is you get up Sunday morning feeling great. Keep up the good work.
@@paulmcwhorter exactly on point about feeling great Sunday morning! I’m a recovering alcoholic with 5 years of sobriety so it’s hobbies like this that keep my brain in the right place. Noticed all your playlists so I’ll have to look into what else I can learn from you. Probably need to hit up your Patreon too!
Ryan, I've tried the RGB LED chapter. I can't get it to work. I know my code is correct. I've also tried switching resistors, RGB LEDs, and rewired my circuit more than a few times. Any suggestions.
@timbrooker8630 maybe i think i had it too u should try to see if the connections are good and olso if u plan to lets say give a certain amount like red 50 do it on a port with the ~ then u can do analogwrite or som and olso try to see if u can light up the individual by instead of puting it on an output but the lead that was to the output to 5v to see if it brightens up or not then u can diagnose and olso maybe your resistor is wrong or not connected properly or maybe u forgot a capital in de code maybe idk
@@FurkanOz480Thank you for help. I have the same problem. Tried all the suggestions, found that the declaration of STRING doesn t change it s color, maybe the syntax is different for the newest version 2.0.3. that i use.
A little remark, to people who might have problems with the diode lighting up. In my case I had to change the condition statements (starting with "if") from f.e.: " if (myColour == "red") ", to " if (myColour == "red ") ", because the Arduino IDE had some problems with interpretation of the new line after each question. Mr. McWorther, your channel was recommended to me by a good friend of mine. I really do love and enjoy your Arduino Tutorial. Please never lose your passion to teaching and your spirit. I am looking forward to watching your future videos ^^.
Hi, thankyou for your suggestion to change the if command to include red . I have just spent quite a considerable time trying to work out why my LED wouldn't light up.
Hello ! I was very curious to know about this 4-legged LED and I played along with it for a while. I went through the color charts and made CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, WHITE followed by the basic RED , GREEN , BLUE colors. Further out of my curiosity I did a little experiment with 3 potentiometers and the RGB LED. It worked well and I made other beautiful colors such as LAVENDER and ORANGE. Thank you so much for teaching me the fundamentals so well. Blessed to be learning from you!
I have been following the lessons and BOOM I have a much better understanding of programming. What has helped is the fact that mistakes are made, whether intentional or unintentional, and that is where I have gained the most because so many are similar to what I've done. Thanks for the lively and informative tuition. I am especially looking forward to reading to and from LCDs. I hope that is in the programme.
Thank you @FuNkTOID for pointing out adjust your Serial input to "No line ending" , Spent 3 days trying to figure it out, as well as buying a new Arduino board. After that, everything was good :))
Love the series Paul. I don't have an Arduino as yet but am following. Thanks for the "U" in colour. We spell it that way in Oz. When I get my Ardi I'll do all of the lessons on it. You have an excellent (most excellent?) incremental teaching style. Thanks so much for your work in doing these.
Hi Paul, thanks for the arduino lessons, I've never had a better teacher ! I am a retired electronics engineer , and enjoy the modern arduino applications , thanks to you! Peter, Belgium
I got sloppy on this one and powered a few of the LEDs with digital pins. Some of the colors worked but the ones that needed one to be dimmed did not work right. After putting them all on the analog outputs they worked great. After 20 episodes I'm still here. 48 more to go! These are awesome videos!
Hi, I also did this however, my blue coluree is way less bright than red and green given the same brightness argument. I tried both RGB leds, swapped current resistors and also swapped pins at the Arduino to no avail. I can try a lessor current resistor but, should I have too??? Any insight would be appreciated! dhrubes@hotmail.com
Had issues with this once I started adding the extra colors (the assignment). Realized that pin 8 wasn't an analog pin! Once I switched the pins to 9, 10, and 11, everything worked perfectly!! Hope I'm not spoiling the next lesson for anyone!! I also like adding all "case" versions of the word. Silly since it'll just be me typing in the Serial Monitor, but I guess I'm a little OCD too!! HAHA! Another good lesson Paul!!
Thank you soooooo much for your comment! I could not for the life of me figure out why I could not turn on any colour of the LED. Switching pins finally did the trick!
Mr. McWorther, thank you for another amazing lesson, I did the code as well here Is mine int rPin=12; int gPin=8; int bPin=7; String ledColour; int dt=1000; String error="You didn't write an option, please try again."; String msg="What colour led do you want?"; void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once: Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(rPin,OUTPUT); pinMode(bPin,OUTPUT); pinMode(gPin,OUTPUT); } void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: Serial.println(msg); while(Serial.available()==0){ } ledColour=Serial.readString(); if(ledColour=="Blue"||ledColour=="blue"){ digitalWrite(bPin,HIGH); digitalWrite(gPin,LOW); digitalWrite(rPin,LOW); } if(ledColour=="Green"||ledColour=="green"){ digitalWrite(bPin,LOW); digitalWrite(gPin,HIGH); digitalWrite(rPin,LOW); } if(ledColour=="Red"||ledColour=="red"){ digitalWrite(bPin,LOW); digitalWrite(gPin,LOW); digitalWrite(rPin,HIGH); } if(ledColour=="Off"||ledColour=="off"){ digitalWrite(bPin,LOW); digitalWrite(gPin,LOW); digitalWrite(rPin,LOW); } if(ledColour!="Green"&&ledColour!="green"&&ledColour!="Blue"&&ledColour!="blue"&&ledColour!="Red"&&ledColour!="red"&&ledColour!="Off"&&ledColour!="off"){ Serial.println(error); } delay(dt); }
I can see "new", I can see "improved", but never "new and improved". Can't be done as it is either new or improved. Not both. These are "most excellent" tutorials. Easy to understand and I'm seeing new things and improving my base. Thanks for these.
Just thought about how to make the RGB LED cycle between ROY-G-BIV! I had problems with it flickering initially, but I realized that it's because I allowed the values to reach zero (off) and then turn back on at full brightness. There's all the colours for you and then some Paul! Thanks for being a great teacher. Without your lessons I probably wouldn't have even thought about how to do this! int red_pin = 9; int green_pin = 10; int blue_pin = 11; int red_val; int green_val; int blue_val; int delayTime = 5; void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once: Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(red_pin,OUTPUT); pinMode(green_pin,OUTPUT); pinMode(blue_pin,OUTPUT); } void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: for (red_val == 255; green_val < 255; green_val += 1) { analogWrite(green_pin,green_val); delay(delayTime); } for (green_val == 255; red_val > 1; red_val -= 1) { analogWrite(red_pin,red_val); delay(delayTime); } for (red_val == 1; blue_val < 255; blue_val += 1) { analogWrite(blue_pin,blue_val); delay(delayTime); } for (blue_val == 255; green_val > 1; green_val -= 1) { analogWrite(green_pin,green_val); delay(delayTime); } for (green_val == 1; red_val < 255; red_val += 1) { analogWrite(red_pin,red_val); delay(delayTime); } for (red_val == 255; blue_val > 1; blue_val -= 1) { analogWrite(blue_pin,blue_val); delay(delayTime); } }
I think you could also adjust the max brightness by making it a variable that you adjust with the potentiometer and then making that the initialization and the condition parameters for the for loop, but I'm not sure, going to have to try that in the morning!
I have rewritten this program 5 times. Rebuilt this circuit 10 times. Watched the video 25 times. Only to find out about "No line ending" from the comment section. Thanks to the comment section!!!! And Paul
For those using another kit like me sometimes it wont look like his but more like a chip with an LED on it and 4 legs infront on one side called an RGB Module yes..... i also got confused at first but then i googled about it and they pretty much are the same thing
I did your homework task, then I created three counters and created a light that changes colour constantly, SO COOL!! Thanks so much, I've made it to Tutorial 20 and I'm still LOVING IT!!!
PS. I got massively caught out by using pins 11, 12 and 13 before realising I needed to use pins 9,10 and 11 with PWM. Thanks so much for your great content Paul!
Thank You for not editing out your errors. More importantly, Thank You for talking out loud while you troubleshoot them. I usually pick something up that I did not know/think of from what you said out loud!
Age long question "If indian guys teach everything on RUclips, then who teaches indians?" has finaly been answered! It was our best teacher Paul all along!
So very nice of you to acknowledge us 'Brits". Superb videos ! Insightful and fun. I'm working my way through them all. Fantastic you're digging deeper with important theory. At 58 (and RR aero-engine mechanical engineer), I didn't know a resistor from an LED. Your teaching method is totally engaging. Kudos to you sir. While I'm tapping, and at the risk of being one of those 'wise guys' SOS is souls not ships. 😄. I'm sure i'm not the only smart ass. Greetings from 🇬🇧 ...
Paul, I am really loving these tutorials. I got my Arduino kit from college and getting stuck into learning how it works. Furthermore, I really appreciate the way your spelt colour!! Greetings from the UK
Paul when you say Hold your breath and let see and then say, Boom. This is such a exciting moment to catch your excitment to see your magic. I am new. Just begin to learn. I become so excited when you do to us in your every new project. Thank you.
Whew... this one went WAY better than lesson 19. I paused the video and went and coded the exercise (I did glance back at the code for 19 a couple of times) and it worked! I even added a fourth if which lets people know if they entered an unavailable color.
I have been learning all your lessons and doing all the homework so far and it is awesome! I'm from Canada so we use "colour" here. Thanks for all the lessons so far.
Ok Paul I'm 20 videos deep you are a fantastic teacher! When you say in the other video 'I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall.' I yelled back at my monitor 'I'm here and I'm loving it Paul!'. OK I'm a little bit strange sometimes, I've been home due to COVID for a week and I'm starting to go crazy, yelling at youtube videos. All the same I just wanted to say how enjoyable this has been thus far and I can't wait to be with you to the end! I'll be on your Raspberry Pi videos next I suspect.
G'Day Mate I am loving the tutorial and especially love how you set homework so we can try and figure things out by our selves in small bites. can't wait to continue through the series you have put together.
Sorry if it's me not holding my breath, my grandson has been trying for you, but being a wee man, he can't quite hold it long enough, he's ever so sorry. I enjoyed this one, i made a silly fundamental mistake, when I copied and pasted, i copied the silly readstring line, then pasted it on all of the paragraphs, which did create some odd results, i could light red, then it would sort of loop into the test paragraph, and wouldn't do anything, the serial was locked up, i have time stamp visible, which helps no end when i'm debugging. Thanks for the UK heads up. By the way, serial settings, 9600 is most common, even today, if I'm consoling into a telecom shelf, we use 9600, 8 none 1 none, seems standard. Thanks again. Simon
Quick Tip: If you get tired of switching off all the other LEDs in every if statement, just switch of all the LEDs off at the end or at the beginning, and put a _delay_ statement before doing this so that people may get a chance to view the LED state before!
Just started watching this series yesterday. I greatly appreciated the "U" in colour! Thanks for the lessons, they've been very helpful for understanding micro-controller code. Cheers from the UK.
Good lesson. I messed up the brackets after the "if" statements which made a mess of the LEDs lighting up but once I figured that out it worked like a charm. Thanks for a great lesson.
The last couple videos about user interaction were a lot of fun, but this program is just too much fun, in addition to your assignment I think I'll have to add a few dozen more colors. Thanks and God bless!
Added Mauve (RGB 197, 140, 157) Color option because this is such a 'Mauvelous' Arduino Video ... Well Done. Having a lot of fun learning from the Tutorials.
Thanks for this lesson; for some reason the RGB LED was lighting up green when I typed blue and lighting up blue when I typed green; I checked all wiring on breadboard and connections made to the Arduino and everything checked out okay. I can only deduce that my RGB LED leads are different than the one you used in this lesson; by switching the connections to the Arduino board for the green and blue outputs everything worked as desired. I removed everything from the breadboard and just left RGB LED - then applied straight 5v through resistor to each leg of the RGB LED and voila my hunch was right the leads for green and blue were switched compared tot he one you used. Great challenge for trouble shooting.
I loved being able to play around and get just the color I thought matched the colors asked for, the values suggested online were way off to my eye!. Thanks for the lesson, Paul!
Hi Paul , Kudos to you sir for the English spelling of Color. I have been coding along with you on previous Tutorials and changing the spelling accordingly. I am still enjoying the Tutorials and trying to modify the coding after seeing the videos. Sometimes it works but not always , but it dosen't stop my enthusiasm for the course. Trying to do one video course a day and at least i know if i have to go over something more than once I can just watch the video again. Keep up the Good work Paul you are doing a great job.
This lesson is basically like the last one I just replaced the 3 separate LEDS with the RGB LED. I do not have a small ball like that, I tried using paper and other items but I see where the RGB LED would have uses. Thank you Paul, when I get a ball like that I will come back to this one make different colors.
Hallo , Dear Mr McWhorter ,This is Yoonis from UK. I really like your channel and really learned a lot from your channel. thank you again you made my work life a lot easier. thx and than you saying Colour
Thanks for liking Paul! I have tried to find tutorials for arduino online for completely new people but there weren’t really any good complete ones until I found yours! Thanks for the help!
I did it but it didn't work. I checked all the LEDs and wires and they're fine. I also added println( myColor ) to check my command but when i type "red", the result shows "redred".
Another great learning experience as always. I'm from the UK and yes "Colour" & "Color" I think are now interchangeable. I am old enough to have programmed Commodore 64's and other basic computers using color so no probs for me but nice to see you thinking about us Brits. Respect and keep them coming :-))
I always thought online teaching can never be effective and you could never tune with the teacher. Paul, you made me realize that even online teaching can make bonds between teacher and student.
I was failing miserably at getting this to work. I would type in a color and get nothing out, no lights but the message popped back up again. I found the answer in one of the comments below, turned the serial monitor to "no line ending" and it works perfectly. :) Thanks for these videos, I'm learning a lot.
I absolutely love your tutorials. I’ve been following you all the way up to lesson 20 (that’s where I’m currently at) I’ve been saving all of the sketches we do and once I finally understand what we’re doing. I go in and tweak it and see if I can’t get it to do what I want it to do. I’m gonna start commenting more. The math is very important too.
This is my second time following along with these videos but i changed up the last lesson and used the RGB LED and i added purple to the color options.
Thank you very much for an amazing lesson! Had so much fun with the ping-pong ball, and when I turned the light off:"Boom!" It looked great! Changed redPin to ~6. Assignment is completed, but Orange doesn't look really well, although I checked in the internet. Looking forward to the next lessons!
Omg thank you so much its been driving me insane watching you spell colour as color after so many episodes it started to feel like I'd been spelling it wrong my whole life haha
I had a lot of fun creating colours with this one. I used a "while" statement to have the blue and red Led's blink alternatively. Any character sent to serial input turns the blinking off. Thanks for these tutorials.
Yes Paul! Hello from England - UK. Nice to be included. thank you so much for these helpful videos. P.s ignore the hatred, people seem to take out there anger on the internet. Its a strange quirk of social media where it wouldn't happen face to face, I guess our brains haven't evolved for this technology yet XD. Again thank you, you are so kind providing this information for free, not many people are prepared to put this much effert in to help others.
Thanks for this lesson Paul. Yes here in the UK we do spell colour with the u included. Great course and i'm learning a lot. sometimes have to do the lessons again just to get it to stick in my thick skull. A constant reminder to myself is remember to ensure I put the comments into the sketch so I know exactly why I have done something.
I found something interesting that was completely unrelated to the coding and functionality. I didn't know that cyan and aqua are the same color (colour) or that magenta and fuchsia are the same color. In fact I didn't know how to spell fuchsia until I looked up the RGB color chart. It turns out there are other colors which have at least two names. Who knew there were so many colors already charted with the right proportions of red, green and blue on a 0 to 255 scale? I set up three pots to play with the colors. It was fun getting the right proportions for specific colors (although some of them like silver didn't really look silver even through the ping pong ball due to the incomplete color mixing).
Another Brit here. Thanks for the correct spelling LOL! Seriously though, I'm super new to Arduino but your very easy to underatand tutorials are magnificent. Keep them coming.
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I have been following your tutorials since 2016, and I have never realized until now that you are the person that sparks my curiosity. You teach me computer programming, mathematics, electronics, and the science of how things work. Looking back, I can see how much I know because of you. Paul, you are the greatest teacher I ever have and for that, I just want to say thank you. And I can't wait for the 9-axis sensor tutorial. :)
Thanks for the shout out for the UK viewers, there seems to be quite a few of us. Keep up the good work PW
I am 72 years Old, In Rivera, Colombia SA, learning Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Esp, Is the first video I have seen with a good teacher a an excelent method. Congratulations!!!!!!
Most excellent "behavioUr" for the English spelling!
Remember to have the serial monitor set for "No Line Ending "
Good reminder! On the web based version of the Arduino Editor this setting is at the top left to the left of the baud rate drop down.
wish I had looked at this comment an hour ago!!!!! =-)
I spent like 90 minutes to discover what was wrong; Yes indeed I wish I looked at your comment a bit earlier
Once bitten, twice shy.
fell for this - using VScode as my editor so didn't think to check. Doesn't look like you can change it yet either 🤦♂️
For anyone who is working through this most excellent tutorial - please make sure you adjust your Serial input to "No line ending" otherwise the conditional statements here won't fire. Aside from that, this is 10/10 awesome! Thank you Paul McWhorter! :)
I have been banging my head for a day trying to get it to work and this did it thanks
Thankuuuuuuuuu!!!!
Much appreciated. This was driving me crazy
how to do it can you tell me please i am banging my mind from long time
I was having so much trouble getting it to work but I had it on new line all the time, thanks for the tip, it finally worked!!
I made it to tutorial 20! I'm really good about getting excited about something then quickly losing interest. I'm proud of myself! There is nothing more exciting then starting a fresh new lesson (with my black iced coffee) and pulling something new out of my kit! Never thought in a million years I'd be spending my Saturday nights doing something like this but I've never been happier!
EXCELLENT! You are almost 1/3 of the way through the class. Then off course, lots of other videos series on this channel, so plenty to keep you buys.
I can not think of a more fun way to spend Saturday night, and the great thing is you get up Sunday morning feeling great. Keep up the good work.
@@paulmcwhorter exactly on point about feeling great Sunday morning! I’m a recovering alcoholic with 5 years of sobriety so it’s hobbies like this that keep my brain in the right place.
Noticed all your playlists so I’ll have to look into what else I can learn from you. Probably need to hit up your Patreon too!
Ryan, I've tried the RGB LED chapter. I can't get it to work. I know my code is correct. I've also tried switching resistors, RGB LEDs, and rewired my circuit more than a few times. Any suggestions.
@timbrooker8630 maybe i think i had it too u should try to see if the connections are good and olso if u plan to lets say give a certain amount like red 50 do it on a port with the ~ then u can do analogwrite or som and olso try to see if u can light up the individual by instead of puting it on an output but the lead that was to the output to 5v to see if it brightens up or not then u can diagnose and olso maybe your resistor is wrong or not connected properly or maybe u forgot a capital in de code maybe idk
@@FurkanOz480Thank you for help. I have the same problem. Tried all the suggestions, found that the declaration of STRING doesn t change it s color, maybe the syntax is different for the newest version 2.0.3. that i use.
I deeply appreciate the 'u' in 'colour.' More than you could ever know. Thanks, Paul.
"Boom" learned some more. Love the UK shout out with "colour"
A little remark, to people who might have problems with the diode lighting up. In my case I had to change the condition statements (starting with "if") from f.e.: " if (myColour == "red") ", to " if (myColour == "red
") ", because the Arduino IDE had some problems with interpretation of the new line after each question.
Mr. McWorther, your channel was recommended to me by a good friend of mine. I really do love and enjoy your Arduino Tutorial. Please never lose your passion to teaching and your spirit. I am looking forward to watching your future videos ^^.
Hi, thankyou for your suggestion to change the if command to include red
. I have just spent quite a considerable time trying to work out why my LED wouldn't light up.
I have spent two days trying to make this work. My serial monitor wasn’t set to “no line ending” . Now it works!!!
Same, but why ?
@@waitwhat612 you need to set your serial monitor to no line ending
Hello !
I was very curious to know about this 4-legged LED and I played along with it for a while. I went through the color charts and made CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW, WHITE followed by the basic RED , GREEN , BLUE colors. Further out of my curiosity I did a little experiment with 3 potentiometers and the RGB LED. It worked well and I made other beautiful colors such as LAVENDER and ORANGE. Thank you so much for teaching me the fundamentals so well. Blessed to be learning from you!
Nice idea I am going to do it
I have been following the lessons and BOOM I have a much better understanding of programming. What has helped is the fact that mistakes are made, whether intentional or unintentional, and that is where I have gained the most because so many are similar to what I've done. Thanks for the lively and informative tuition. I am especially looking forward to reading to and from LCDs. I hope that is in the programme.
Thank you @FuNkTOID for pointing out adjust your Serial input to "No line ending" , Spent 3 days trying to figure it out, as well as buying a new Arduino board. After that, everything was good :))
Love the series Paul. I don't have an Arduino as yet but am following. Thanks for the "U" in colour. We spell it that way in Oz. When I get my Ardi I'll do all of the lessons on it. You have an excellent (most excellent?) incremental teaching style. Thanks so much for your work in doing these.
Thanks for including us Australians with the spelling of colour. A great series of tutorials.
Hi Paul, thanks for the arduino lessons, I've never had a better teacher !
I am a retired electronics engineer , and enjoy the modern arduino applications ,
thanks to you!
Peter, Belgium
Fantastic!
Same as Peter
I got sloppy on this one and powered a few of the LEDs with digital pins. Some of the colors worked but the ones that needed one to be dimmed did not work right. After putting them all on the analog outputs they worked great. After 20 episodes I'm still here. 48 more to go! These are awesome videos!
As a Canadian thank you for using Colour ;)
you've done me a great favour by spelling colour courectly. great episode!
No Proublem
Thank you very much for the shout out Paul. I decided to use your parseInt stuff so I could manually set the brightness for my program.
Hi, I also did this however, my blue coluree is way less bright than red and green given the same brightness argument. I tried both RGB leds, swapped current resistors and also swapped pins at the Arduino to no avail. I can try a lessor current resistor but, should I have too??? Any insight would be appreciated!
dhrubes@hotmail.com
Im British and enjoying you lessons !!
20 lessons in, and "hook a brother up" still makes me grin from ear to ear. ^o^
Had issues with this once I started adding the extra colors (the assignment). Realized that pin 8 wasn't an analog pin! Once I switched the pins to 9, 10, and 11, everything worked perfectly!! Hope I'm not spoiling the next lesson for anyone!! I also like adding all "case" versions of the word. Silly since it'll just be me typing in the Serial Monitor, but I guess I'm a little OCD too!! HAHA! Another good lesson Paul!!
Thank you soooooo much for your comment! I could not for the life of me figure out why I could not turn on any colour of the LED. Switching pins finally did the trick!
RGB BOOM! I decided for my project to use three for loops to make the LED cycle through all the possible colors.
It's pretty nice to watch.
Mr. McWorther, thank you for another amazing lesson, I did the code as well here Is mine
int rPin=12;
int gPin=8;
int bPin=7;
String ledColour;
int dt=1000;
String error="You didn't write an option, please try again.";
String msg="What colour led do you want?";
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(rPin,OUTPUT);
pinMode(bPin,OUTPUT);
pinMode(gPin,OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
Serial.println(msg);
while(Serial.available()==0){
}
ledColour=Serial.readString();
if(ledColour=="Blue"||ledColour=="blue"){
digitalWrite(bPin,HIGH);
digitalWrite(gPin,LOW);
digitalWrite(rPin,LOW);
}
if(ledColour=="Green"||ledColour=="green"){
digitalWrite(bPin,LOW);
digitalWrite(gPin,HIGH);
digitalWrite(rPin,LOW);
}
if(ledColour=="Red"||ledColour=="red"){
digitalWrite(bPin,LOW);
digitalWrite(gPin,LOW);
digitalWrite(rPin,HIGH);
}
if(ledColour=="Off"||ledColour=="off"){
digitalWrite(bPin,LOW);
digitalWrite(gPin,LOW);
digitalWrite(rPin,LOW);
}
if(ledColour!="Green"&&ledColour!="green"&&ledColour!="Blue"&&ledColour!="blue"&&ledColour!="Red"&&ledColour!="red"&&ledColour!="Off"&&ledColour!="off"){
Serial.println(error);
}
delay(dt);
}
I've been following this series and playing along, I am eager to learn more and I'm having so much fun! You're the best teacher ever!
I took a break from Arduino, but I am really happy that I started doing this again. You are the best.
Hi Paul, Thanks for the wave to the British :-) Loving the course. Stay safe.
As a Canadian, I appreciate the spelling of "colour". These tutorials are brilliant btw!
Manitoba represent!
I can see "new", I can see "improved", but never "new and improved". Can't be done as it is either new or improved. Not both. These are "most excellent" tutorials. Easy to understand and I'm seeing new things and improving my base. Thanks for these.
As someone who learned Canadian English, the "colour" spelling was appreciated! Thanks for the tutorial as always.
Just thought about how to make the RGB LED cycle between ROY-G-BIV!
I had problems with it flickering initially, but I realized that it's because I allowed the values to reach zero (off) and then turn back on at full brightness. There's all the colours for you and then some Paul! Thanks for being a great teacher. Without your lessons I probably wouldn't have even thought about how to do this!
int red_pin = 9;
int green_pin = 10;
int blue_pin = 11;
int red_val;
int green_val;
int blue_val;
int delayTime = 5;
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(red_pin,OUTPUT);
pinMode(green_pin,OUTPUT);
pinMode(blue_pin,OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
for (red_val == 255; green_val < 255; green_val += 1) {
analogWrite(green_pin,green_val);
delay(delayTime);
}
for (green_val == 255; red_val > 1; red_val -= 1) {
analogWrite(red_pin,red_val);
delay(delayTime);
}
for (red_val == 1; blue_val < 255; blue_val += 1) {
analogWrite(blue_pin,blue_val);
delay(delayTime);
}
for (blue_val == 255; green_val > 1; green_val -= 1) {
analogWrite(green_pin,green_val);
delay(delayTime);
}
for (green_val == 1; red_val < 255; red_val += 1) {
analogWrite(red_pin,red_val);
delay(delayTime);
}
for (red_val == 255; blue_val > 1; blue_val -= 1) {
analogWrite(blue_pin,blue_val);
delay(delayTime);
}
}
I think you could also adjust the max brightness by making it a variable that you adjust with the potentiometer and then making that the initialization and the condition parameters for the for loop, but I'm not sure, going to have to try that in the morning!
Thanks for the shout out, watching from the UK working my way through this series.
“Colour” for us Aussies too. Thank you so much for all these tutorials. The absolute best and easiest to follow.
I have rewritten this program 5 times. Rebuilt this circuit 10 times. Watched the video 25 times. Only to find out about "No line ending" from the comment section. Thanks to the comment section!!!! And Paul
For those using another kit like me sometimes it wont look like his but more like a chip with an LED on it and 4 legs infront on one side called an RGB Module yes..... i also got confused at first but then i googled about it and they pretty much are the same thing
I did your homework task, then I created three counters and created a light that changes colour constantly, SO COOL!! Thanks so much, I've made it to Tutorial 20 and I'm still LOVING IT!!!
PS. I got massively caught out by using pins 11, 12 and 13 before realising I needed to use pins 9,10 and 11 with PWM. Thanks so much for your great content Paul!
PWM is your friend!
Mr. Paul McWhorter is the best teacher ever! God bless
Thank You for not editing out your errors. More importantly, Thank You for talking out loud while you troubleshoot them. I usually pick something up that I did not know/think of from what you said out loud!
After doing this tutorial. I made a blinking light with different kinds of colours. it was a long code and its all worth it! I'm very happy!
Hi Mr. Paul ,❣️You From "The India"
Your Videos are really Amazing 😍
me too from india
Age long question "If indian guys teach everything on RUclips, then who teaches indians?" has finaly been answered! It was our best teacher Paul all along!
@@tellder1 True that
@@tellder1 truuu
So very nice of you to acknowledge us 'Brits". Superb videos ! Insightful and fun. I'm working my way through them all. Fantastic you're digging deeper with important theory. At 58 (and RR aero-engine mechanical engineer), I didn't know a resistor from an LED. Your teaching method is totally engaging. Kudos to you sir. While I'm tapping, and at the risk of being one of those 'wise guys' SOS is souls not ships. 😄. I'm sure i'm not the only smart ass. Greetings from 🇬🇧 ...
Paul, I am really loving these tutorials. I got my Arduino kit from college and getting stuck into learning how it works. Furthermore, I really appreciate the way your spelt colour!! Greetings from the UK
Paul when you say Hold your breath and let see and then say, Boom. This is such a exciting moment to catch your excitment to see your magic. I am new. Just begin to learn. I become so excited when you do to us in your every new project. Thank you.
Love it!
Whew... this one went WAY better than lesson 19. I paused the video and went and coded the exercise (I did glance back at the code for 19 a couple of times) and it worked! I even added a fourth if which lets people know if they entered an unavailable color.
Paul McWorthers teaching is so intriguing that i started the combination of lights even before he mentioned it!
I have been learning all your lessons and doing all the homework so far and it is awesome! I'm from Canada so we use "colour" here. Thanks for all the lessons so far.
Hello, fellow Briton. I would just like to say well done to everyone for getting this far in the course and keep up the good work Paul.
I'm British (from Bristol, England). I appreciate the "Colour" gesture, thank you.
Ok Paul I'm 20 videos deep you are a fantastic teacher! When you say in the other video 'I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall.' I yelled back at my monitor 'I'm here and I'm loving it Paul!'. OK I'm a little bit strange sometimes, I've been home due to COVID for a week and I'm starting to go crazy, yelling at youtube videos.
All the same I just wanted to say how enjoyable this has been thus far and I can't wait to be with you to the end! I'll be on your Raspberry Pi videos next I suspect.
Really kind of you to give the Brits a nod! We're struggling at the moment with all the division over here - a bit of unity is appreciated.
The extent Mr. McWhorter goes to teach us is a delight
paused at 2:03
in search of a ping-pong ball...
G'Day Mate
I am loving the tutorial and especially love how you set homework so we can try and figure things out by our selves in small bites. can't wait to continue through the series you have put together.
Sorry if it's me not holding my breath, my grandson has been trying for you, but being a wee man, he can't quite hold it long enough, he's ever so sorry. I enjoyed this one, i made a silly fundamental mistake, when I copied and pasted, i copied the silly readstring line, then pasted it on all of the paragraphs, which did create some odd results, i could light red, then it would sort of loop into the test paragraph, and wouldn't do anything, the serial was locked up, i have time stamp visible, which helps no end when i'm debugging.
Thanks for the UK heads up.
By the way, serial settings, 9600 is most common, even today, if I'm consoling into a telecom shelf, we use 9600, 8 none 1 none, seems standard.
Thanks again. Simon
British learner here, appreciate the UK shout out (Canada and NZ do it too tho!), as well as the course in general
Quick Tip: If you get tired of switching off all the other LEDs in every if statement, just switch of all the LEDs off at the end or at the beginning, and put a _delay_ statement before doing this so that people may get a chance to view the LED state before!
Great tip. Thanks. Always something to learn just in the comments!
That's a great tip. Thanks man.
Thanks so much. I was tearing my hair out.
I literally loved playing with analogRead commands in RGB. That was freakishly interesting. Thank you Grand Pa!
Love your tutorials.. and love the orange shirt :) Thank you so much
Just started watching this series yesterday. I greatly appreciated the "U" in colour! Thanks for the lessons, they've been very helpful for understanding micro-controller code. Cheers from the UK.
Welcome aboard!
Good lesson. I messed up the brackets after the "if" statements which made a mess of the LEDs lighting up but once I figured that out it worked like a charm. Thanks for a great lesson.
The last couple videos about user interaction were a lot of fun, but this program is just too much fun, in addition to your assignment I think I'll have to add a few dozen more colors. Thanks and God bless!
Added Mauve (RGB 197, 140, 157) Color option because this is such a 'Mauvelous' Arduino Video ... Well Done. Having a lot of fun learning from the Tutorials.
Thanks for this lesson; for some reason the RGB LED was lighting up green when I typed blue and lighting up blue when I typed green; I checked all wiring on breadboard and connections made to the Arduino and everything checked out okay. I can only deduce that my RGB LED leads are different than the one you used in this lesson; by switching the connections to the Arduino board for the green and blue outputs everything worked as desired. I removed everything from the breadboard and just left RGB LED - then applied straight 5v through resistor to each leg of the RGB LED and voila my hunch was right the leads for green and blue were switched compared tot he one you used. Great challenge for trouble shooting.
I loved being able to play around and get just the color I thought matched the colors asked for, the values suggested online were way off to my eye!. Thanks for the lesson, Paul!
Hey Paul. You doing a great job. I'm not always logged in. But i'm doing my "homework". and following you step by step..
Thank you for the 'u', like everything else in your lessons it’s very much appreciated. I think I'll solder my first board and keep this one.
Another Brit here loving the acknowledgment and the Arduino Tutorials in general. Thank you 😁😁
Hi Paul, I'm one of you British fans, I'm new to Arduino and your lessons are interesting and useful .
Hi Paul , Kudos to you sir for the English spelling of Color. I have been coding along with you on previous Tutorials and changing the spelling accordingly. I am still enjoying the Tutorials and trying to modify the coding after seeing the videos. Sometimes it works but not always , but it dosen't stop my enthusiasm for the course. Trying to do one video course a day and at least i know if i have to go over something more than once I can just watch the video again. Keep up the Good work Paul you are doing a great job.
This lesson is basically like the last one I just replaced the 3 separate LEDS with the RGB LED. I do not have a small ball like that, I tried using paper and other items but I see where the RGB LED would have uses. Thank you Paul, when I get a ball like that I will come back to this one make different colors.
super excited! My Elegoo kit finally arrived - just in the nic of time as I didn't have an RGB LED in my possession....Kit looks great!
Hallo , Dear Mr McWhorter ,This is Yoonis from UK. I really like your channel and really learned a lot from your channel. thank you again you made my work life a lot easier.
thx and than you saying Colour
Guys! If the leds aren’t turning on, try turning your serial monitor to no line ending. Hope this helps!
Thanks for liking Paul! I have tried to find tutorials for arduino online for completely new people but there weren’t really any good complete ones until I found yours! Thanks for the help!
? I don't understand that statement. How is this done?
I take it back. I figured it out, and it was the cause for the lights not turning on. Thanks!!!!!
Most Awesome advice!
I did it but it didn't work. I checked all the LEDs and wires and they're fine. I also added println( myColor ) to check my command but when i type "red", the result shows "redred".
One of the Best courses in RUclips Ever!
Another great learning experience as always. I'm from the UK and yes "Colour" & "Color" I think are now interchangeable. I am old enough to have programmed Commodore 64's and other basic computers using color so no probs for me but nice to see you thinking about us Brits. Respect and keep them coming :-))
Thanks for the shout out Paul. Totally enjoying your very entertaining and colourful course. From Colchester in the UK
I sit and played with these assignment colours... Loved it! Thanks Paul!
I always thought online teaching can never be effective and you could never tune with the teacher.
Paul, you made me realize that even online teaching can make bonds between teacher and student.
I was failing miserably at getting this to work. I would type in a color and get nothing out, no lights but the message popped back up again. I found the answer in one of the comments below, turned the serial monitor to "no line ending" and it works perfectly. :) Thanks for these videos, I'm learning a lot.
I would move to Texas just to take a class with him. I LOVE THIS SERIES!
Well, I live in Africa now, so you would have to move to Africa.
@@paulmcwhorter I would do that, also that’s really cool!
Well, this in interesting. More than 3 colors in one led.
Using analogWrite lets you dial in any color you want.
Wayne
I absolutely love your tutorials. I’ve been following you all the way up to lesson 20 (that’s where I’m currently at) I’ve been saving all of the sketches we do and once I finally understand what we’re doing. I go in and tweak it and see if I can’t get it to do what I want it to do. I’m gonna start commenting more. The math is very important too.
“Boom” you did it again, you made my light bulb turn on with RGB or should I say my mental LED? 😁
i had a common cathode but ive figured it out by looking at circuit diagrams online. used what i learned here to make it work!
This is my second time following along with these videos but i changed up the last lesson and used the RGB LED and i added purple to the color options.
Thank you very much for an amazing lesson! Had so much fun with the ping-pong ball, and when I turned the light off:"Boom!" It looked great!
Changed redPin to ~6.
Assignment is completed, but Orange doesn't look really well, although I checked in the internet.
Looking forward to the next lessons!
Glad you spelt colour properly there, matey! Us Brits can get awful tetchy 'bout them spellings! Greetings from Great Brittania!
Omg thank you so much its been driving me insane watching you spell colour as color after so many episodes it started to feel like I'd been spelling it wrong my whole life haha
Great lesson, it puts into perspective the 255 value(s) of color mixing in most programs.
i still love the way he says "BOOM"
I had a lot of fun creating colours with this one. I used a "while" statement to have the blue and red Led's blink alternatively. Any character sent to serial input turns the blinking off. Thanks for these tutorials.
Yes Paul! Hello from England - UK. Nice to be included. thank you so much for these helpful videos.
P.s ignore the hatred, people seem to take out there anger on the internet. Its a strange quirk of social media where it wouldn't happen face to face,
I guess our brains haven't evolved for this technology yet XD. Again thank you, you are so kind providing this information for free, not many people are
prepared to put this much effert in to help others.
Wow! that was a difficult one, really struggled to get the yellow, but it was a great tutorial, thanks Paul.
Thanks for this lesson Paul. Yes here in the UK we do spell colour with the u included. Great course and i'm learning a lot. sometimes have to do the lessons again just to get it to stick in my thick skull. A constant reminder to myself is remember to ensure I put the comments into the sketch so I know exactly why I have done something.
Some times want to scroll up and fix things. Great lessons.
I found something interesting that was completely unrelated to the coding and functionality. I didn't know that cyan and aqua are the same color (colour) or that magenta and fuchsia are the same color. In fact I didn't know how to spell fuchsia until I looked up the RGB color chart. It turns out there are other colors which have at least two names. Who knew there were so many colors already charted with the right proportions of red, green and blue on a 0 to 255 scale? I set up three pots to play with the colors. It was fun getting the right proportions for specific colors (although some of them like silver didn't really look silver even through the ping pong ball due to the incomplete color mixing).
There you go, Lynn, playing around! LOL.
Hi Paul! GREAT LESSONS, thank you!!! Here in Canada, we also use colour. Color while gaining popularity is, at this point, American only.
Another Brit here. Thanks for the correct spelling LOL!
Seriously though, I'm super new to Arduino but your very easy to underatand tutorials are magnificent.
Keep them coming.