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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Mixing multiple colors

Until now, we have only displayed a single color at a time on one or more of the LEDs. If you consider how the circuit is wired up, you might wonder how we can get one LED to display one color and another a different one at the same time. The simple answer is that we don't need to-we just do it quickly!

All we need to do is display one color at a time, but change it back and forth, so quickly that the color looks like a mix of the two (or even a combination of the three red/green/blue LEDs). Fortunately, this is something that computers such as the Raspberry Pi can do very easily, even allowing us to combine the RGB elements to make multiple shades of colors across all five LEDs. Perform the following steps to mix the ...

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