Demo of LED lighting effects using PWM and wait for time delays. Pins are setup for LPC1768 platform’s LEDs. For complete information, see http://developer.mbed.org/users/4180_1/notebook/led-lighting-effects-for-modelers/

Dependencies:   mbed

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+#include "mbed.h"
+//LED fire lighting effect
+PwmOut myled(LED1);
+//Use PWM output to enable LED dimming
+
+//Use Cs random number generator rand(), but scaled and
+//converted to a float (range 0.0 to 1.0) for PWM output
+inline float random_number()
+{
+    return (rand()/(float(RAND_MAX)));
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+    while(1) {
+//get a new random number for PWM
+        myled = random_number();
+//a bit slower time delay can be used for fire
+        wait(0.04);
+    }
+}