Engduino Lights Tutorial - Basics

This tutorial will teach you the basics of communicating with your Engduino.

First, make sure you're in "coder" or "expert" skill level.

This option is on the "learn" part of the touchdevelop

homepage. Then, you want to click "Create Script" in the

"my scripts" section, and type "blank engduino". Select

the option shown in the picture below.

Then, the first thing you'll see is

an action called "main". This is

where the loop is called, inside

a while loop with condition

"true". This means the loop will

keep running continuously,

repeating your commands over

and over again.

Now, you want to go the "loop" action, so click on

then click

The first thing you'll see is this code. This is

example code, showing how you set your

Engduino's LEDs to turn on and turn off

repeatedly, with random colours chosen

each time.

Go ahead and try it out by pressing then the

button.

(Make sure the Engduino is plugged in to your computer and turned on!)

For this tutorial, keep the example code. In future tutorials, follow the above steps as usual and

delete the 4 lines of example code, before following the steps I will give you afterwards.

Now that you've seen it running the

example code, it's time to add to it. Look

at this code.

I have added 4 lines to the example code.

It turns 3 of the LEDs (2, 4 and 6) red,

green and blue, after the example code

turns the LEDs off.

The Engduino has 16 LEDs, and each has

its own number from 1 to 16.

You may be wondering what this code does. The first line declares the "loop" action, which was

previously called in "main" as you saw earlier.

Then all the LEDs are set to a random colour. A short delay then makes sure these LEDs stay on for a

moment, before they are set to black, where they turn off.

There is then another delay, followed by LEDs set individually (using "set LED" instead of "set all

LEDs". Go ahead and run it on your Engduino again to see what it does.

Great! You now know the basics of communicating with your Engduino and setting the LEDs. In the

next tutorials, you will be surprised with how much you can do with it!