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

Revision:
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+#include "mbed.h"
+//LED House Lighting effect with flickering TV and room lights randomly changing
+DigitalOut porch(LED1);
+DigitalOut room(LED2);
+DigitalOut room2(LED3);
+//DigitalOut OK for LEDs just turing on and off
+PwmOut TV(LED4);
+//Need PWM for nice flickering TV effect
+
+//Use Cs random number generator rand(), but scaled and
+//converted to a float from 0.0 to 1.0
+inline float random_number()
+{
+    return (rand()/(float(RAND_MAX)));
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+    float x=0.0;
+    porch = 1;
+    while(1) {
+        x = random_number();
+        TV = x;
+        if (x >0.98) room = !room;
+        if (x >0.99) room2 = !room2;
+        wait(0.05);
+    }
+}