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Top Forums Programming Very Basic Arduino Uno Board Testing Post 303042233 by hicksd8 on Thursday 19th of December 2019 11:01:23 AM
Old 12-19-2019
You can do some pretty rinky dink seasonal (Christmas) stuff with an Arduino and strips of LEDs like WS2812b (Google that).

You just need to connect a pin of the strip to 5V, another to GND, and a third to an output pin. I use the FastLED library.
You can program sequences of chasing lights, colour changes, and anything else that you want to do.

I had a problem recently in trying to get outputs (eg, LED flashing) at different frequencies (intervals)) given the single thread available on an Arduino. I got around this by using the modulo function. I'll attach the demo code a wrote for this before I wrote the production stuff.

Also, I got hacked off with trying to program LED flashing (on analogue and/or digital output pins) a number of required times and also fading up or down at the same time. For example, fade a LED up, flash it 4 times, then fade it down. I thought that there had to be an easier way so I wrote "ulcf" (Universal LED Control Function) to allow me to call my requirements in one line of code (or perhaps 2 or 3 calls of the function to get the effect that I want). I'll attach this code to this post too but I'm not saying it's fully debugged but you'll get the drift.

How many electronics engineers are there on this forum who mess about with the likes of Arduino? Show of hands please.

PS. Had to upload files as .txt - site refuses to upload .ino
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GPIOCTL(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						GPIOCTL(8)

NAME
gpioctl -- control GPIO devices SYNOPSIS
gpioctl [-q] device attach device offset mask [flag] gpioctl [-q] device pin [0 | 1 | 2] gpioctl [-q] device pin [on | off | toggle] gpioctl [-q] device pin set [flags] [name] gpioctl [-q] device pin unset DESCRIPTION
The gpioctl program allows manipulation of GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) device pins. Such devices can be either part of the chipset or embedded CPU, or a separate chip. The usual way of using GPIO is to connect some simple devices such as LEDs and 1-wire thermal sensors to its pins. Each GPIO device has an associated device file in the /dev directory. device can be specified with or without the /dev prefix. For example, /dev/gpio0 or gpio0. GPIO pins can be either ``read'' or ``written'' with the values of logical 0 or 1. If only a pin number is specified on the command line, the pin state will be read from the GPIO controller and displayed. To write to a pin, a value must be specified after the pin number. Val- ues can be either 0 or 1. A value of 2 ``toggles'' the pin, i.e. changes its state to the opposite. Instead of the numerical values, the word on, off, or toggle can be used. To Only pins that have been configured at securelevel 0, typically during system startup, are accessible once the securelevel has been raised. Pins can be given symbolic names for easier use. Besides using individual pins, device drivers that use GPIO pins can be attached to a gpio(4) device using the gpioctl command. Such drivers can be detached at runtime using the drvctl(8) command. The following configuration flags are supported by the GPIO framework: in input direction out output direction inout bi-directional od open-drain output pp push-pull output tri tri-state (output disabled) pu internal pull-up enabled pd internal pull-down enabled iin invert input iout invert output pulsate pulsate output at a hardware-defined frequency and duty cycle Note that not all the flags may be supported by the particular GPIO controller. When executed with only the gpio(4) device name as argument, gpioctl reads information about the GPIO device and displays it. At securelevel 0 the number of physically available pins is displayed, at higher securelevels the number of configured (set) pins is displayed. The options are as follows: -q Operate quietly i.e. nothing is printed to stdout. FILES
/dev/gpiou GPIO device unit u file. EXAMPLES
Configure pin 20 to have push-pull output: # gpioctl gpio0 20 set out pp Write logical 1 to pin 20: # gpioctl gpio0 20 1 Attach a onewire(4) bus on a gpioow(4) device on pin 4: # gpioctl gpio0 attach gpioow 4 0x01 Detach the gpioow0 device: # drvctl -d gpioow0 Configure pin 5 as output and name it error_led: # gpioctl gpio0 5 set out error_led Toggle the error_led: # gpioctl gpio0 error_led 2 SEE ALSO
gpio(4), drvctl(8) HISTORY
The gpioctl command first appeared in OpenBSD 3.6 and NetBSD 4.0. AUTHORS
The gpioctl program was written by Alexander Yurchenko <grange@openbsd.org>. Device attachment was added by Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>. BSD
November 13, 2011 BSD
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