Lights for Your Wheels

A fun project to do that will make you the envy of your bicycle friends. Flashing red lights, left and right turn signals, horn and other light effects for your bicycle wheels.. Email parts@robotsforfun.com to get the parts for this project.

Before you attempt to do this, you need to first know how to control the rainbow lights.

Parts needed:
  • Arduino Nano or Arduino Pro Mini (Using the Arduino Uno is alright but it's better to use the smaller form factor Nano or Mini)
  • 8x8 RGB LED lights square
  • buzzer
  • Three push buttons
  • Two 3.7V Li-ion rechargeable batteries
  • A battery holder for the two batteries
  • On/off switch
  • Wires
  • Soldering iron
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1 Connect all the components up to the Arduino as follows:
  • D2 to left button
  • D3 to horn button
  • D4 to right button
  • D6 to RGB LED DI_PIN
  • A3 to buzzer
  • The other end of the buttons and buzzer connect to GND
2 Here's the code. It's real long!

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