LED - Rainbow

Demonstrates use of an RGB LED (common cathode) by cycling through rainbow colors. Requires RGB LED on pins that support PWM (usually denoted by ~).

Common Cathode RGB LED. (Arduino UNO)

RGB LED connected to pins 6, 5, and 3 for red, green, and blue respectively. The common pin is connected to ground.

Fritzing diagram: led-rgb.fzz

 

Run this example from the command line with:

node eg/led-rainbow.js

const { Board, Led } = require("johnny-five");
const board = new Board();

board.on("ready", () => {
  const rgb = new Led.RGB([6, 5, 3]);
  let index = 0;
  const rainbow = ["FF0000", "FF7F00", "FFFF00", "00FF00", "0000FF", "4B0082", "8F00FF"];

  board.loop(1000, () => {
    rgb.color(rainbow[index++]);
    if (index === rainbow.length) {
      index = 0;
    }
  });
});

 

Component Classes in this example: