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Project - Lab – Blinking an LED Using Blockly [10 Hrs]
Objectives
Part 1: Open Packet Tracer and Examine Blockly Program for LED Blinking
Part 2: Control a RGB LED using Blockly

Background
Blockly is a visual programming language that lets users create programs by connecting blocks, that
represent different logic language structures, rather than by writing the actual code. Blockly runs
within a web browser and can translate the visually created program as JavaScript, PHP, or Python. In
this lab, you will use Blockly to examine Blockly programming and to control an LED.

Scenario
Using Blockly programming to control an IoT object LED. In this lab, Cisco Packet Tracer is used as it
provides Blockly support with IoT objects.

Required Resources
 Cisco Packet Tracer 7.1.1 and above is installed and available.

Part 1: Launch Cisco Packet Tracer (PT) and Use Blockly

In Part 1, you will access the Cisco Packet Tracer program and examine LED control using Blockly
programming.

Step 1: Launch Packet Tracer.

a. Double click the Cisco Packet Tracer icon to open the PT program.

b. The user interface is shown.

c. Click on the Components category, then click MCU Board and drag it to the workspace.

d. Click the subcategory Actuators, select LED and drag it to the workspace.
e. Click the Connections category, select IoT Custom Cable to link MCU at port D1 and LED at port
D0.

f. Double click the MCU. Its configuration window displays.

 g. Click the Programming tab. (If you do not see the Programming tab, click the Advanced button at
the lower right corner.)

Step 2: Examine a prebuilt Blockly program

a. Under the note No Project Opened, click New. In the Create Project window, enter Blinking LED
as the project name. In the Template dropdown menu, select Blink – Visual.

b. Click Create.
c. Double-click main.visual. The prebuilt Blockly program displays.

d. Click Run. Does the LED blink?

No
e. Click Stop, and change the Value field of the first digitalWrite block to 1023.

f. Click Run, does the LED blink?

Yes

Why was it not blinking when the value was not set to 1023?

The digital out takes the value 1023 as “HIGH”, and turns on the output current.

g. Click the LED and study its specification.

h. It indicates that we can use “analogWrite” to adjust the device brightness. Click the first digitalWrite
block and press Delete. Expand the Pin Access group and drag an analogWrite block to to
where the digitalWrite block was. Do the same for the second digitalWrite block.

i. Change the slot value for each of the analogWrite blocks to 1. Right-click the small block with the
value of zero (0) and click duplicate. Drag the new block into the empty space next to value. Do
the same for the second analogWrite slot.
 j. Change the values of the first and second analogWrite blocks and observe the different LED
brightness levels.

Part 2: Control an RGB LED using Blockly

In Part 2, you used Blockly to control an RGB LED. An RGB can display different colors with the
combination of red, green, and blue.

Step 1: Add an MCU and an RGB LED.

In Step 1, you add another MCU board and a RGB LED into the workspace.
a. Click the subcategory Actuators, select RGB LED and drag it to the workspace. Add another MCU
board.
b. Click the Connections category, select three IoT Custom Cables to link MCU and RGB LED.

c. Click RGB LED and review its specification. Note different pin inputs represent different colors.
d. Open the prebuilt Blockly program. Click MCU -> Programming. Under the note No Project
Opened, click New. In the Create Project window, enter Blinking RGB LED as the project name.
In the Template dropdown menu, select Blink – Visual.

e. Click Create. Double-click main.visual. The prebuilt Blockly program displays.

Step 2: Modify the Blockly program
a. Expand Pin Access group, and add two more pinMode blocks to set three slots as OUTPUT (from
MCB to send a signal to RGB LED).

b. From the Pin Access group, select analogWrite blocks to replace digitalWrite blocks. Also, add
a few print blocks.

c. The final program is as follows:

d. Run the program. The LED should display RED, GREEN, and BLUE in sequence.

Challenge
Modify the program to show a combined color from all three inputs with different, randomly generated
values for each slot.
An example is as follows:
Project: Simulate IoT based Home Automation [8 Hrs ]

1. At first open Pack Tracer Tool.

2. Firstly, select Home icon at the left bottom corner and now choose the required Home components .

Click on Home icon

Select Home Appliances

3. Drag and place the components

Drag and drop

4. Additionally, you can change the name of Appliances by clicking on respective Appliances and select
the config option. You have to repeat the same steps to rename the other devices too.
 Enter the name

5. Thus now let’s establish a wireless connection. Go to Wireless devices and choose Home Gateway

Choose Home Gateway

6. Now copy the SSID of Home Gateway by clicking on the Home gateway.
Copy the SSID

7. Therefore It’s necessary to configure all devices to connect wirelessly to Home Gateway.

Hence you can achieve this by right-clicking a device-> Advanced->I/O config->select PT-IOT-NW-1W.
Similarly, repeat the steps for other devices as well.
8. Then paste the SSID In each appliance by clicking on the config option. Similarly repeat the steps for
other devices as well.

Paste the SSID in all appliances

9. Now lets select IOT server as Home gateway to all appliances.

Click on Appliances->select Advanced->config->choose Home Gateway. Similarly repeat the steps

for other devices as well.

Choose Home Gateway as IOT Server

10. Thus you can notice that all devices are connected to the Home Gateway
11. Now select smart device to Control and Monitor Appliances.

Select end devices at bottom left corner

12. Now connect your smart device also to your Home gateway

13. Thus your smart device is connected to your Home Gateway. Click on smart device and choose
Desktop. You can now login

14. Finally, you can control and Monitor in the Dashboard.

Result