Traffic Lights

Traffic Lights#

We will now scale up our circuits slightly and create a replica traffic light set with a pedestrian crossing.

Component list

  • Microprocessor (for these examples either Arduino Uno or Raspberry Pi Pico)

  • Breadboard

  • Pushbutton

  • 3 x LED lights (1 x Red, 1 x Green, 1 x Yellow)

  • 4 x 220 Ω Resistors

  • 9 x M/M wires

With more components at play, keeping track of your wires, pins and variables is important here.

What’s new?

  • Defining and using functions

  • More ways to handle timing

  • for statements