LED

⚠️ Very Important: ⚠️You must power down your Pi before plugging any connector into the 5v or 3.3v pins. You can damage and even kill the pi if you don't power it down before plugging something to the pins.

Power down your pi.

Plug in your “T-Cobbler Plus” connector, as shown.

Make sure you get the connector plugged in exactly over the pins as shown! Do not twist the cable/miss any pins, or it will not work.

Hook up an LED so that the long leg is hooked to Pin#18 and the short leg is hooked to any GND

Open the editor “Thonny Python IDE”

Open the sample file from your downloaded examples : one_led.py

You may want to save a copy so you have the original.

Press “Run” in Thonny.

The LED should be flashing.

When you're finished, press “stop” to stop running the file.

Challenges

Change the speed of the flashing.
Add a 2nd LED to GPIO(Pin) 19 and create a sketch that will flash two LEDs.
Use "For" loops to flash an LED 10 times quickly, then 10 times slowly.

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