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17. 三月 2026

Reading a Potentiometer — SIK Circuit 2

Learn to read analog input from a potentiometer and use it to control LED blink speed. Turn the knob to make the LED blink faster or slower — your first step into analog sensors!

说明

Parts & Introduction

In this experiment you'll use a potentiometer (a variable resistor with a knob) to control how fast an LED blinks. This introduces analogRead() — reading voltage levels between 0 and 5V as values from 0 to 1023.

Parts Needed

1x Arduino Uno + USB cable
1x Breadboard
1x Potentiometer (10K)
1x LED (any color)
1x 330Ω Resistor
6x Jumper Wires

此步骤所需材料：

SparkFun Inventors Kit - V3.21 套件

Arduino Uno R31 个

Breadboard1 个

Potentiometer (10K)1 个

5mm LED1 个

330 Ohm Resistor1 个

Jumper Wires6 个

所需工具：

Computer with Arduino IDE

Hardware Hookup

Wiring Instructions

Place the potentiometer in the breadboard. It has three pins.
Connect the left pin to GND and the right pin to 5V (or vice versa).
Connect the middle pin (wiper) to Analog Pin A0.
Place an LED in the breadboard. Connect the positive leg (longer) to Digital Pin 13.
Connect the negative leg (shorter) through a 330Ω resistor to GND.
Connect the 5V and GND rails on the breadboard to the Arduino.

此步骤所需材料：

Potentiometer (10K)1 个

5mm LED1 个

330 Ohm Resistor1 个

Breadboard1 个

Jumper Wires6 个

Arduino Code

Open the Arduino IDE and upload the following sketch to your Arduino board.

potentiometer.inoarduino

/*
SparkFun Inventor's Kit
Example sketch 02 — POTENTIOMETER

Measure the position of a potentiometer and use it to
control the blink rate of an LED. Turn the knob to make
it blink faster or slower!

This code is completely free for any use.
Visit http://learn.sparkfun.com/products/2 for SIK information.
*/

int sensorPin = 0;    // Potentiometer on analog pin 0
int ledPin = 13;      // LED on digital pin 13

void setup()
{
  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}

void loop()
{
  int sensorValue;

  sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);

  digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
  delay(sensorValue);

  digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
  delay(sensorValue);
}

此步骤所需材料：

Arduino Uno R31 个

所需工具：

Computer with Arduino IDE

Test & Experiment

What You Should See

The LED blinks faster or slower as you turn the potentiometer knob. At one extreme it blinks very fast, at the other it blinks slowly.

Troubleshooting

Sporadically working: The potentiometer pins may not be making good contact. Press it firmly into the breadboard.
Not working: Make sure the wiper (middle pin) goes to Analog pin 0, not Digital pin 0.
LED not lighting: LEDs only work in one direction. Flip it around.

Experiments to Try

Open the Serial Monitor and print the sensorValue to see the raw numbers (0-1023).
Use map() to convert the sensor range to a brightness range and control LED brightness with analogWrite().