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Raspberry Pi GPIO Dual-Color LED Driver with Common Anode

Type Circuit schematicStandard IEEE Std 315 / ANSI Y32.2Engine schematex-circuitUpdated 9/7/2026
Raspberry Pi GPIO Dual-Color LED Driver with Common Anode
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The scenario

A Raspberry Pi drives a dual-color LED with common anode from two GPIO pins, using low-side switching through current-limiting resistors.

What is in this drawing

Read the decisions behind it.

01

Use common-anode LED with both anodes tied to the 3.3V rail

02

Connect each cathode to a GPIO pin through a 330 Ω resistor to set LED current

03

Tie Raspberry Pi ground to the 3.3V supply return

Reuse for any 3.3V microcontroller driving common-anode LEDs where GPIO sinks current to turn each color on.

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