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# Arduino Lesson 7. Make an RGB LED Fader

## Overview

In this lesson, you will be combining some of the things that you learnt in earlier lessons to use three push switches (from lesson 6) to control the color of the RGB LED that you used in lesson 3 in order to make a Color Organ!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/002/224/medium800/learn_arduino_overview.jpg?1396780637)

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