LED Blink Speed / Analog Sketch

I’m doing a series of mini projects that will build up to a motor controller, but need to get some basics across first. This first sketch is a Arduino, reading a potentiometer on an analog port, and using that data to control the blink speed of a LED on a PWM port. The potentiometer (pot) connects to ground and +5 on the outside legs, and Analog 0 on the center leg. The LED connects + to pin 7 and – to a 270 ohm resistor connected to ground. The value of the pot determines the delay on the LED. This not true PWM, that’s coming next.

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int sensorPin = A0;    // Analog input pin to pot
int ledPin = 7;      // PWM pin to LED
int sensorValue = 0;  // variable to store pot value

void setup() {
// declare the ledPin as an OUTPUT:
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
// read the value from the sensor:
sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);
// turn the ledPin on
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
// stop the program for <sensorValue> milliseconds:
delay(sensorValue);
// turn the ledPin off:
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
// stop the program for for <sensorValue> milliseconds:
delay(sensorValue);
}