How to Add a Power LED to Your Raspberry Pi Project!

In this short video, I'll show you how to add an LED power indicator/status light to your Raspberry Pi project, letting you know when it's powered and when it's safe to unplug your Pi. This project works with any Raspberry Pi model. :)
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[jeffcarpenter]

off the gate hes right. soldering is one of the most important skills ive gained learning while doing

[ScottTreaster]

Neat! Thanks for this.

@2:31 If your leads are long enough, instead of cutting them so close to the one end and discarding those female connectors, you could cut the wires in the middle. That way you could make two sets of these or at least reuse the remaining ends for another project - like maybe your related power switch build.

[paulhowarth]

Good info, thankyou - point to note viewers - 3mm led 330 ohm, 5mm led 100 ohm, different forward voltage between both components

[craig_bacon]

Hi, question. If I am building this with the LED built in button, do I still need to use a resistor? Or should the button already have that built into it?

[zk_]

Nice project though every time I have tried to solder those pre-assembled jumper wires, they won't take solder. I'll have to try it again.

[chiranthnandi]

Hey! How about a tutorial on how to build a Raspberry Pi touchscreen tablet? 😄
Looking forward for one 🤩

[hford]

Does anyone know of a specific power button with LED that will fit in the Flirc case? I don't want to purchase multiple buttons before I find one that fits? Thanks in advance!

[BrianThomas]

I love love love your videos. I've just discovered your channel and you've already saved me a ton of time in making some projects really simple to do. Question. I'd like to add a display screen to my raspberry pi that will show me available connected HDD storage, CPU usage, and Network utilization. Would you happen to have a video tutorial on this at all? Keep up the great work and thank you for your help.

[randominventions]

How can I add a fan and use the power button at same time because if I plug a fan in the power button won’t work?

[billpinson]

You mention a premade LED assembly. Can you tell me where I can get them please?

[Bullt]

I've made this, it was working for a while. Now it turns on when I power on the pie but after a couple seconds it turns off. Any ideas why that happens?

[owendeweese]

Hi! I have a question similar to Simon’s. I would like to know how to connect both the LED and the power switch. I already have it all, just would like to know which GPIO pins to connect each into.

[bransen]

i connected the led to pin 4 and 6 (5V and GRND) - is there any linux command for turning off led / turning off pin 4?

[simoneilenberger]

Wondering about the LED project in addition to the power button... In fact i would (on pressing the button) shorten 3 gpio pins, is that correct? (Meaning Pin 3, 6, 8 as 3-6 = power button and 6-8 = LED) Does that work with the pi or will it do any damage?

[jacklyno]

my standard LED (20mA drawing 3.2V max) is very dim - even when reducing transistor to 47ohm. Does anyone know how to make it brighter?

[datthdoner]

I tried this and the led ist glowing. After first try the led got dark while shutdown. Now it was still on? Also my shutdownbutton isn't working anymore. Could this be a wrong resistor?

[SergioAAV]

Is there a way to make the LED turn off when it's safe to unplug the power cable? I noticed that when I shut down the Pi, the LED that indicates activity in the SD card still blinks for 5 seconds before it goes completely off.

[LuckyMellowDanny]

Using retropie. The LED turns on for a second when I turn it on, but goes off very quickly.

[almirstorck]

Thank you very much for these instructions. I´ve just installed the LED and power button (like other video) and everything is working fine!.
Just one comment: instead of editing the config.txt file in the computer (take it from the pi, open in computer, edit, back to pi, I used de nano editor directly on ssh interface using Putty. I bit more smarter....
Anyway... nice video.

[RelihSchneider]

why you put resistor on black wire (negative)? i see in others projects they use resistor on red wire(positive)