Did you know that you can use Arduino to turn on an LED when you press a button? Well, it is true, you can do this! Leaving the joke aside, let me show how you can achieve this. You will need the ...

When the Arduino code sees the button getting pressed, it brings the corresponding LED pin high and starts a fade out timer using the SoftPWM library by [Brett Hagman].

Arduino Sketch Code /* * Arduino Camping Light * Camping Light with a single push button switch to control the light output between off, dim, medium, and high brightness * Test Configuration: MCU: ...

The Adafruit Gemma measures just 1 inch in size and is powered by an ATtiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, allowing you to create those wearable projects of the future.