Arduino Airplane Lights

ARDUINO AIRPLANE LIGHTS

INTRODUCTION

This is an Arduino DIY project intended to simulate airplane lights. Airplanes are detectable in the night sky solely because of their lights. Most airplanes have three lights, one at the bottom and other on edge of each wing. The most common configuration is one red light at the bottom and two white lights on the wing.

COMPONENTS REQUIRED

1. Breadboard

2. Arduino UNO

3. One 5mm Red LED

4. Two 5mm White LED’s

5. Three 20 Ohm resistors

6. Breadboard jumpers (wires)

CIRCUIT SCHEMATICS

Make the appropriate connections as shown in the schematic above

CODE

This is the code for simulating Arduino Airplane lights. Copy and paste the code in Arduino IDE sketch area. Note that the values and choice of ports can always be changed.

void setup() {

  // put your setup code here, to run once:

pinMode(4, OUTPUT); //Red LED

pinMode(7, OUTPUT); //White LED

pinMode(8, OUTPUT); //White LED

}

void loop() {

  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:

digitalWrite (4, HIGH);

delay(500);

digitalWrite(4, LOW);

delay(200);

digitalWrite (7, HIGH);

digitalWrite (8, HIGH);

delay(100);

digitalWrite(7, LOW);

digitalWrite(8, LOW);

delay(300);

}