Blinking LED with Raspberry Pi

Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn how to connect a LED to your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pin and make it blink using Python.

Required Hardware

• Raspberry Pi (any model)
• Breadboard
• LED (any colour)
• Female to male jumper wires
• 470Ω Resistor
• microSD card with Raspbian installed

Wiring

Code

On your Raspberry Pi, open a terminal window. Install python by the following commands.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-rpi.gpio

Download and save this file on your desktop

With the following commands you can execute the Python script that makes the LED blink:

cd Desktop

python blink.py

The LED will blink every second. Press Ctrl + C to terminate the execution of the Python script

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