If you use that value to index an array with only ten elements, the results can be (will be) unpredictable.
The analog to digital converter produces a ten bit result, so an analogRead returns values in the range 0 to 1023. Getting 1023, 255, 512 from 10? What?Ī ten bit binary number can represent all the numbers from zero to 1023 inclusive.
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But the code needs to be written in a way that doesn't try to turn on all 512 of the 10 LEDs at once.Įverything you people are saying is so confusing. Well the sensitivity number has to be low so the lights light up better. The comment says that the value used to be divided by 50, which would have produced an upper limit of 20. You divide the value by 2, reducing the upper limit to 511. Since you did not come back and say "but I KNOW that the highest value returned by analogRead() will be X", I have to assume that you don't KNOW what the highest value will be, so we have to assume that it will be 1023. Plug it in to the Arduino, and call analogRead() and Serial.print() as you vary the voltage, to determine the upper limit with your setup OR assume that the upper limit returned by analogRead() will be 1023.
If you don't KNOW that the voltage will be limited to some upper bound less than 5.0V, you have two choices. If you KNOW that the voltage to be measure will range from 0 to 1.25V, on a 5V board, then you can determine that the upper value returned by analogRead will be limited to 1.25/5.0 * 1023, or 255. The analogRead function returns the ratio of the measure voltage to the reference voltage (typically the nominal board voltage - 5V or 3.3V) expressed as a value between. You plug some voltage source into the analog pin, where the voltage can vary between 0 and 5V (or 3.3V on some Arduinos). What? There are 10 elements (LED's) I don't quite understand. The led array does not contain anywhere near that many elements. Now, I ranges from 0 to an upper limit as high as 512. for (i = 0 i < left i++) // turn on the leds up to the volume level Where do you get between 0 and 512? Is this like 1024KB in a MB kinda thing? Is that how you got the 1023 and 512 being ~half of 1023? Well the sensitivity number has to be low so the lights light up better. left = left / 2 // adjusts the sensitivity (I changed this to 2 from 50 so it lights up better) Could it be 1023? The part where you put this (under the analogread) doesn't make much sense to me. Your particular input may result in a lower upper bound, but do you know what that upper bound is? The variable left will contain a value between. And I am very new to programming and C and all this, so please cope with me. Well, I didn't write it so I don't entirely understand it. Is it possible to have USB and power hooked up to my Arduino at the same time? USB = 5v, power input 6v. Unrelated: If I have 8 volts going into power to my Arduino, will the digital pins output 8 volts? Link: What happened to the old ZXQ website? | ZXQ Is there like an overload error or something here? What I would like to know is what is "i" in this code and why the LED's all light up at once, then turn off with the pin 13 LED blinking really fast until you dis- and re-connect power to the Arduino. I tried deleting the last part (turn off LED's above voltage level), it works without that chunk. If (left = 0) // if the volume is 0 then turn off all ledsįor (i = 0 i < left i++) // turn on the leds up to the volume levelįor(i = i i < 10 i++) // turn off the leds above the voltage level Left = left / 2 // adjusts the sensitivity (I changed this to 2 from 50 so it lights up better) Left = analogRead(leftChannel) // read the left channel Int leftChannel = 0 // left channel inputįor (i = 0 i < 10 i++) // Tell the arduino that the leds are digital outputs Int led = // Assign the pins for the leds
It does work, I also will put a link under the code to the instructions and such. I have to disconnect power from my Arduino to get it to work again. When I turn the volume up too loud, all the LED's shut off and the LED soldered to digital pin 13 starts blinking really fast and everything stops working. I have made an LED VU Meter that lights up LED's to a corresponding volume level and I am having some trouble.
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