ET-4860

Lab: 1 Morse Code (Blink)

Graham, Joshua
13 February 2014

Objective:
The objective of this lab is to become familiar with the blink code provided by Arduino and be
able modify it so it blinks initials followed SOS in Morse code in a continuous loop. I think the
overall objective of this lab is to be an introduction to Arduino and a refresher to programming.

Procedure:
There were not too many major activities involved in this lab. Overall it was a fairly straight
forward lab. I basically just plugged up the Arduino, uploaded the blink program and began to
modify it. At first I made the code by just using digitalWrite and delay for each letter. I quickly
realized that it would make the code extremely long. By listening to some of my classmates and
recalling some of what I learned in CSCI 1170 I was able to abbreviate the code. I made a void
function for each dot, dash, and pause outside the loop. I then called each function in the loop.





Results:
I was able to obtain some good results from this lab.

Conclusions/Comments:
This lab was a success. I didnt run into any problems with the code or the Aduino. The code was
successfully compiled and uploaded to the board. After observing the finished product it did
spell out my initials followed by SOS.