Created September 22, 2020

Pop of Light

Project 1 for DIG3602

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Link to the video: https://youtu.be/j1NQhOVJ3rM

For my project I made a portable nightlight called Pop of Light since it’s in a popcorn box. It is something that lights up the room faintly at night so its not so dark in a room. It is portable since it is in a box and can be carried around. It can light up seven different colors. Both primary, secondary, and white. All the colors are determined by the switches you turn on and off.

How it works is it has three switches on the side, one for each of the primary colors. When two switches are flipped. The secondary color of the two primary colors that were switch will show. When all three are turned on, the light will show white. The box is a popcorn box. I cut a hole in the top so the light is shown. I taped the wires to the inside sides of the box so no shadows would show. I put the circuit board on dental floss since the clips kept slipping off on a flat surface. Having it raised gave the clips better grip. The code I used was my own from trial and error. I did use the code form the first switch assignment to just get started. Each of the seven colors are set to their own logic code and to run forever if turned on. Its mostly all if this or that switch is on then show this color. I did try to add the potentiometer, but all the wires started to get in the way and it wasn’t working like it should.

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pins.A1.setPull(PinPullMode.PullUp)
pins.A4.setPull(PinPullMode.PullUp)
pins.A7.setPull(PinPullMode.PullUp)
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A4.digitalRead()) {
        light.setAll(0x007fff)
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A1.digitalRead()) {
        light.setAll(0xff0000)
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A7.digitalRead()) {
        light.setAll(0xffff00)
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A1.digitalRead()) {
        if (pins.A4.digitalRead()) {
            light.setAll(0x7f00ff)
        } else {
            light.clear()
        }
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A1.digitalRead()) {
        if (pins.A7.digitalRead()) {
            light.setAll(0xff8000)
        } else {
            light.clear()
        }
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A4.digitalRead()) {
        if (pins.A7.digitalRead()) {
            light.setAll(0x00ff00)
        } else {
            light.clear()
        }
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})
forever(function () {
    if (pins.A1.digitalRead()) {
        if (pins.A4.digitalRead()) {
            if (pins.A7.digitalRead()) {
                light.setAll(0xffffff)
            } else {
                light.clear()
            }
        } else {
            light.clear()
        }
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})

Pop of Light

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David Linaburg

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David Linaburg

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