Arduino Beginner Series: Project 9: LED voltage indicator

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So in this project we’ll make use use of LEDs to indicate the voltage which varies with the variable resistance (potentiometer). The Arduino supplies a max of 5 volts. This system turns Red LED on if voltage is above 5 volts, Yellow LED if voltage is between 3 and 4 volts and Green LED if voltage is below 3 volts.

Demo:

Here is what my project looks like:

Things Required:

1. Arduino UNO
2. LEDs (1 of green, red, yellow each)
3. Breadboard
4. 220 ohm resistor (x3)
5. Jumper Wires
6. 10 k potentiometer
7. Arduino IDE on computer

Functions used:

1. digitalWrite()
2. Serial.println()
3. analogRead()

Reference Material:

Here is a reference video (LINK). My project is a variation of this one.

Here’s just some working (this part is more for my later reference):

Code:

View on/Download from Github: (LINK)

int redled=8;
int yellowled=9;
int greenled=10;
int potpin= A1;
int potval;
float voltage;

void setup(){
  pinMode(redled, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(yellowled, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(greenled, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(potpin, INPUT);
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop(){

  potval= analogRead(potpin);
  voltage=(5.0/1023.0)*potval;
  Serial.println(voltage);

  if(voltage<=3){
    digitalWrite(redled,LOW);
    digitalWrite(yellowled,LOW);
    digitalWrite(greenled,HIGH);
  }

   if(voltage>3 && voltage<=4){
    digitalWrite(redled,LOW);
    digitalWrite(yellowled,HIGH);
    digitalWrite(greenled,LOW);
  }

   if(voltage>4){
    digitalWrite(redled,HIGH);
    digitalWrite(yellowled,LOW);
    digitalWrite(greenled,LOW);
  }
  
  
}

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