Arduino Beginner Series: Project 8: LED choice from Serial monitor

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In this project we’ll tell the Arduino if we want green, red, yellow or blue LED on.

Demo:

So this is what my project looks like:

Things Required:

1. Arduino UNO
2. LEDs (1 of green, red, yellow and blue each)
3. Breadboard
4. 220 ohm resistor (x4)
5. Jumper Wires
6. Arduino IDE on computer

Functions used:

1. digitalWrite()
2. Serial.println()
3. Serial.available()
4. Serial.readString()

Reference Material:

I referred to this (LINK) video for this project.

Code:

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int greenled= 11;
int redled=10;
int yellowled=9;
int blueled=8;
String msg1= "Do you want green, red, yellow or blue led on?";
String choice;
String msg2=" led is on";

void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:
  pinMode(greenled, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(redled, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(yellowled, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(blueled, OUTPUT);
  Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  Serial.println(msg1);
  while(Serial.available()==0){
    
  }

  choice = Serial.readString();

  if(choice=="green"){
    digitalWrite(greenled, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(redled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(yellowled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(blueled, LOW);
  }

  if(choice=="red"){
    digitalWrite(greenled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(redled, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(yellowled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(blueled, LOW);
  }

  if(choice=="yellow"){
    digitalWrite(greenled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(redled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(yellowled, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(blueled, LOW);
  }

  if(choice=="blue"){
    digitalWrite(greenled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(redled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(yellowled, LOW);
    digitalWrite(blueled, HIGH);
  }

}

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