RGB Color Mixing
Students move through the engineering design process as they write Arduino code and use a “digital sandbox” to create new colors out of the three programming primary colors: green, red and blue. They develop their own functions, use them to make disco light shows, and vary the pattern and colors of their shows. The digital sandbox is a hardware and software learning platform powered by a microcontroller that can interact with real-world inputs like light, while at the same time controlling LEDs and other outputs.
You can mix colors to make any new color you want!Copyright 2006 Wintermute, Wikimedia Commons {PD} https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AdditiveColorMixingII.png
- SparkFun Digital Sandbox, at https://www.ebay.com/itm/325800037840?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338590836&toolid=10044&loc_physical_ms=90297&customid=99a8d666e53215631651bef0a7ddfdc8&gclid=99a8d666e53215631651bef0a7ddfdc8
- computer with access to Arduino programming environment
- USB cable, to connect sandbox
Contributors
Brian Huang; Sabina Schill
Supporting Program
SparkFun Education
Copyright
2016 by Regents of the University of Colorado; original © 2014 SparkFun Education
