PWM: Fade LED

Overview

This is a sample app which fades a LED using PWM.

The LED will start from dark and increases its brightness gradually for 10 seconds. Then, the brightness reduces gradually for 10 seconds and finally the LED becomes dark again. The LED will repeat this cycle for ever.

Wiring

Arduino 101 and Quark D2000 CRB

You will need to connect the LED to ground and PWM0 via the shield. You may need a current limiting resistor. See your LED datasheet.

Nucleo_F401RE and Nucleo_L476RG

Connect PWM2(PA0) to LED

Nucleo_F103RB

Connect PWM1(PA8) to LED

Hexiwear K64

No special board setup is necessary because there is an on-board RGB LED connected to the K64 PWM.

Building and Running

This sample can be built for multiple boards, in this example we will build it for the arduino_101 board:

# On Linux/macOS
cd $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/basic/fade_led
mkdir build && cd build
# On Windows
cd %ZEPHYR_BASE%\samples\basic\fade_led
mkdir build & cd build
cmake -GNinja -DBOARD=arduino_101 ..
ninja
ninja flash