LIGHT UP LED USING ARDUINO UNO

To light up an led we just need a DC power source and ground terminal here we connect led anode terminal (+) to pin number 13 (digital IO) so that if we program our code as pin number 13 as HIGH (+5V), it behaves as power source and Cathode terminal (–) of led to the ground terminal of Arduino so that the circuit will get complete.

After uploading the program to Arduino, if we give power to Arduino Uno then it will light up the LED.

Required hardware or components for Lighting up LED using Arduino

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

ARDUINO CODE: LIGHT UP LED USING ARDUINO UNO

void setup() {
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
  digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
}

CODE EXPLANATION

Step-1: In the setup function we decide the mode of digital pins either as INPUT or OUTPUT. Let’s concentrates on output for now.
Function “pinMode( )” is used to define the pin working mode as an input/output.
In this function we have to pass two argument – 

1. First one is pin number and
2. Second is its mode, pinmode(pinNumber, mode). 

In this we set pin number 13 as output: pinmode(13, OUTPUT).

void setup() {
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
}

Step-2: In the loop function we are using one inbuilt function that is digitalWrite( ).
Function “digitalWrite( )” is used to instruct the controller/Arduino to set the state of a particular digital pin as either LOW or HIGH.
In digitalWrite( ) function we also pass two argument – 

1. First one is pin number and
2. Second is its state, digitalWrite(pinNumber, state).

In this we set pin number 13 output as HIGH: digitalWrite(13, HIGH).

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
}

And the loop gets executed continuously and the LED remains HIGH all the time.

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