1.7 Flowing LED

Today, we will use LED, Raspberry Pi and scratch to make a Water Lamp.

The LED will light up in order with the direction of the arrows on the stage.

Required Components

Build the Circuit

Load the Code and See What Happens

By clicking on Arrow1, the LEDs are lit in sequence from the left to the right (one at a time) and then off. Click Arrow2 and the LEDs light up in the opposite order.

Tips on Sprites

Delete the default sprite and choose the Arrow1 sprite.

Here we will need 2 Arrow1 sprites, which can be done with the duplicate button.

Click on the Arrow 2 sprite and change the direction of the arrow by selecting arrow1-b.

Now let’s make a variable.

Name it as num.

Follow the same method to create a list called led.

After adding, you should see the num variable and the led list on the stage area.

Click + to add 10 list items and enter the pin numbers in order (17,18,27,22,23,24,25,2,3,8).

Tips on Codes

This is an event block that is triggered when the current sprite is clicked.

The initial value of the num variable determines which LED is lit first.

Set the pin corresponding to num in the led list to low to light the LED, and then set the pin corresponding to num-1 to high to turn off the previous LED.