Blinking an LED with Arduino – Tutorial #1. July 8, 2013 by P. Marian Comments 6. Advertisement. ... I love all about electronics, circuit diagrams and crazy projects that can help us achieve almost ...

It is a pretty common first project to use an Arduino (or similar) to blink an LED. Which, of course, brings taunts of: you could have used a 555! You can, of course, also use any sort of oscillato… ...

Before the software part, let's first set up the circuit to connect the LED to the Arduino. The completed circuit should look like Figure 2. Figure 2. Circuit for a Single LED Blink Next, in your ...

You could put the Arduino in deep sleep, if you wanted to and that LED will still blink. With a little work, you could probably adapt this idea to any number of circuits out of the 555 playbook ...