Arduino Beginner Series: Project 5: Using Serial Monitor to tell LED the number of times it has to blink

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So here we’ll start with using Serial monitor to tell LED the number of times it has to blink

Demo:

Here is what my project looks like:

Things Required:

1. Arduino UNO
2. USB AB cable
3. LED (any color)
4. Breadboard
5. 220 ohm resistor
6. Arduino IDE on computer
7. jumper wires

Functions used:

1. digitalWrite()
2. delay()

Video Tutorial:

Here’s the video I used for reference: (LINK)

Code:

String msg="How many blinks?";
int blinks;
int led=8;
int dt=500;


void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
}


void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  Serial.println(msg);
  while(Serial.available()==0){
    
  }
  blinks=Serial.parseInt();

  for(int i=1; i<=blinks; i++){
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
    delay(dt);
    digitalWrite(led, LOW);
    delay(dt);
  }
  

}

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