SMD LED Rotator

Small SMD LEDs with 10mm LED dome.

[@justgrumpy]

Love the rotation effect. I'm VERY new to pic microcontrollers. I'd love to learn how to do something like this. I have a project where I want some "rotating" lights like this.

[@CarrotDugTooDeep]

I started out just using a 555 timer and a 4017 decade counter. It was not smooth at all, so I did some research. I used a PIC16F628A briefly and it looked okay, so I made a post here www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/pic16f628a-pwm-for-led-chaser.159198/ to see if I could improve the PWM rate. That's when I found out about the newer microprocessors. They were faster, cheaper and smaller, so I bought several different ones and did a lot of reading. The guys at the link above gave me a lot of pointers. I still suck at coding, but it turned out pretty good.

[@justgrumpy]

@@CarrotDugTooDeep Excellent. Thank you for the link. I have some PIC16F18313. I'll read through the posts. I don't need as many LEDs for my project, so I think the PIC16F18313 should do fine. I am a software engineer, but the PIC and PMW stuff is a lot lower level than I'm used too. Excited to learn though. Thanks again.

[@misterbee4574]

I wonder how Arduino may help you...