Analog and PWM: smooth light and servos

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A digital pin only knows on/off. How to dim smoothly? PWM: the pin blinks 500× per second, analogWrite(9, 128) = half brightness — the eye sees "smooth". Works on ~ pins (3,5,6,9,10,11). Servo: a motor turning to an angle 0–180° — servo.write(90). For shutters, camera pans, valves. The Servo.h library is built in.

●analogRead 0–1023 ↔ analogWrite 0–255: brightness = map(value, 0,1023, 0,255)
●Servos need separate power — a pin can’t supply enough current
●RGB LED = 3 LEDs in one body: 3 PWM pins = 16 million colours

🌊 The dimmer in your flat works by the same PWM principle — rapid on/off. Arduino just lets you play with what already lives inside your walls.

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