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Push Button Blinking Light

Push Button Blinking Light
This instructable explains how to make an LED light blink on and off for ten seconds by pressing the on button.  As well, the light can be turned off by pressing a separate off button.

This example is similar to the "Button Pressing Pushbuttons CIRC-07" example provided in the Arduino Experimentation Kit - ARDX. 

 
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Step 1Required Parts

Breadboard Sheet
Arduino Duemilanove
2 Push Buttons
2 10K OHM Resistors - Brown - Black - Orange
1 560 OHM Resistor Green - Blue - Brown
1 Red LED
7 wires
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Mar 30, 2010. 6:35 PMmguima says:
No offense, but I don´t understand the reason to use a device so advanced as a Arduino just to blink a led for ten seconds. The same could be done with a couple of 555´s, saving power and using a very smaller circuit board than this Arduino option.
Dec 9, 2009. 4:04 PMswpk says:

No offense, but it seems that project circuits like these, are completely useless. Seeing as most people DON'T happen to have an Arduino laying around to make something like this, a real circuit diagram would be great. I cannot tell you how many times that I've seen an interesting project title, clicked the link, and found out its just another Arduino or similar based project.


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