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/

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Fri Nov 28 17:59:16 2014 +0000
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diff -r 000000000000 -r a903b3cf5317 main.cpp
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+++ b/main.cpp	Fri Nov 28 17:59:16 2014 +0000
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+#include "mbed.h"
+//LED Railroad Crossing Lighting Effect
+PwmOut myled(LED1);
+PwmOut myled2(LED4);
+//Use a PWM output to enable dimming
+//1.0 is full on, 0.0 off, 0.5 50% on
+
+//function to simulate incandescent bulb warm up 
+//and cool down cycles
+void incandescent_bulb(PwmOut led, float on_time = 0.1, 
+float warm_time = 0.2)
+{
+    //LED warm up effect using PWM
+    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
+        led = i/10.0;
+        wait(warm_time/10.0);
+    }
+    //LED at full brightness level
+    led = 1.0;
+    wait(on_time);
+    //LED cool down effect using PWM
+    for(int i=9; i>0; i--) {
+        led = i/10.0;
+        wait(warm_time/10.0);
+    }
+    //LED off
+    led = 0.0;
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+    while(1) {
+        incandescent_bulb(myled);
+        incandescent_bulb(myled2);
+    }
+}
diff -r 000000000000 -r a903b3cf5317 mbed.bld
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+http://mbed.org/users/mbed_official/code/mbed/builds/031413cf7a89
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