Tutorials with Arduino: The Knight Rider

A very dumb and simple, but really good looking example of the Arduino UNO and LEDS. The effect of the Knight Rider Car.

The idea with this example is to learn how to work with arrays on the code. (see the code below)

Here is the project working on video:

Part List:

• 1 x Arduino UNO
• 7 x Red Leds
• 7 x 220ohm resist.

The connections are very simple:

Attach  each led with it´s resistor to a digital output (from 3 to 9). The rest is in the code.

The Source Code:

/* Knight Rider 3
 * --------------
 *
 * This example concentrates on making the visuals fluid.
 *
 *
 * (cleft) 2005 K3, Malmo University
 * @author: David Cuartielles
 * @hardware: David Cuartielles, Aaron Hallborg
 */

int pinArray[] = { 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
int count = 0;
int timer = 10;

void setup(){
  for (count=0;count<8;count++) {
    pinMode(pinArray[count], OUTPUT);
  }
}

void loop() {
  for (count=0;count<6;count++) {
   digitalWrite(pinArray[count], HIGH);
   delay(timer);
   digitalWrite(pinArray[count + 1], HIGH);
   delay(timer);
   digitalWrite(pinArray[count], LOW);
   delay(timer*2);
  }
  for (count=6;count>0;count--) {
   digitalWrite(pinArray[count], HIGH);
   delay(timer);
   digitalWrite(pinArray[count - 1], HIGH);
   delay(timer);
   digitalWrite(pinArray[count], LOW);
   delay(timer*2);
  }
}

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