Blinkit | Arduino RGB Mode

With the latest version of Blinkit it is now possible to blink a RGB LED, the LED can be triggered on upvotes, followers and posts. the colour, number of blinks and the delay in between the blinks can be set.

Blink in any colour, on Steem related actions!

What is Blinkit?
Blinkit is a notification software that can be used to give regular (inexpensive) widely available devices a Steem purpose.

Supported devices:

• USB Sticks (with read/write status light)
• Philips hue lamps
• Sonoff smart Wifi switches
• Arduino (tested with Arduino Uno r3)

Blinkit can look for new Steem account Upvotes, Followers, and it can notify on new Posts made by a user.

More devices and actions will be added in the near future.

Blinkit is free and open source, and can be downloaded from the Blinkit Github page

https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit

Support for RGB led

To give more flexibility with blinking in different colours the support for RGB leds is added, it requires 3 transistors and, one RGB led. The relative settings can be set from within the Blinkit interface.

Blinkit new features

• a new mode is added "1x RGB led"
• Choose a colour for a action (new upvote, follower, post)
• Choose the number of blinks and the delay in between each blink on the RGB led.

Arduino screen

Selecting the "1x RGB LED" mode

Selecting the Colour for each action

How is it implemented

A new mode is added, this send (m2) to the Arduino using the arduinomode.exe the colour settings are defined and gets send with arduinosendcommand.exe
The colour can be selected by the user from the dropdown list under each led / action. To get the best colours, the RGB values of the colours are tested and tuned.

saving the mode, m2 to arduinomode.txt

sending the mode to the arduino

Saving the colours set by the user in the pulldown menus

Sending the saved colour to the arduino with arduinosendcommand.exe

The RGB colour values are adjusted to give better colours.

The following files have been add/updated

• Blinkit.exe
• arduinosketch.ino
• arduinowiring1xrgb.jpg
• The Blinkit source files are updated

Collaboration

To add RGB LED support to the Blinkit interface and Arduino boards, i've worked together with @electronicsworld he have updated the Arduino Sketch and also started bug fixing in VS as well, We did a lot of over night testing and bug solving to make it work in a friendly way.

Please check his post as well about the implementation on the Arduino.

Have you found a bug?

You could make a Utopian contribution and add an issue post to the project on Github. or get in touch on Discord and report the issues.

Do you want to make other devices compatible and make Blinkit better?
Please get in contact on Discord for more details.

Technical Support

Technical support is available, if you may encounter a problem, or if you want to know if your device is supported or will be supported in the near future.

How to contribute?

Do you have a question, or suggestion for Blinkit?
Do you want to make other devices compatible and make Blinkit better?

Feel free to contact me on Discord, don't hesitate and get in touch! or leave a comment.