Built-in project · Arduino Leonardo
Leonardo fade
Two LEDs off two different kinds of timer: the ten-bit one on pin 13 and an ordinary 16-bit one on pin 9. The whole build, an Arduino Leonardo and 4 more parts, runs here in your browser on the firmware below; open it in the editor to change the wiring or the code and run it again.
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The circuit itself, running here on the simulator. Press what can be pressed; click anything else to open it in the editor.
The code
The firmware exactly as the editor opens it. Change a line there and press Run: it compiles in the browser.
sketch.ino · Arduino Leonardo
// Fade: hardware PWM on pin 13, which on this board is timer 4.
//
// Timer 4 is the 32U4's ten-bit high-speed timer and it is unlike anything on
// an Uno: its TOP is a register (OCR4C) rather than a mode, its channels are
// A, B and D with no C, and each channel needs a PWM4x enable of its own on
// top of the COM bits. analogWrite hides all of that (the sketch is the
// ordinary one), but the waveform on pin 13 is coming out of a different kind
// of timer from the one that drives pin 9.
//
// Pin 9 gets the same ramp a quarter of a period behind, off timer 1, so the
// two PWM frequencies this board has are both on screen: 976.5625 Hz on 13 and
// 490.196 Hz on 9.
int level = 0;
int step = 5;
void setup() {
pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
pinMode(9, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
analogWrite(LED_BUILTIN, level);
analogWrite(9, 255 - level);
level += step;
if (level <= 0 || level >= 255) {
step = -step;
level += step;
}
delay(12);
}
Parts list
6 parts, plus the jumper wires. Every one is in the editor's parts bin.
- 1 × Arduino Leonardo
- 1 × Full-size breadboard
- 2 × Resistor, 220 Ω
- 1 × LED, red
- 1 × LED, blue
How it is wired
5 connections, pin by pin, read from the circuit itself. Each line is one set of pins joined together, by a jumper wire or a breadboard strip.
- Ground: Arduino Leonardo pin GND; LED, red pin C; LED, blue pin C
- Arduino Leonardo pin 13; Resistor, 220 Ω (1) pin 1
- Arduino Leonardo pin 9; Resistor, 220 Ω (2) pin 1
- Resistor, 220 Ω (1) pin 2; LED, red pin A
- Resistor, 220 Ω (2) pin 2; LED, blue pin A
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