Help lighting LED via GPIO pins

Question

So I got an RPi and a canakit, I'm trying to follow a guide to get a simple program to make the LED blink. I have very little experience with RPis so it's probably a very simple error, but I can't figure out why it won't work. When I run the program I get a runtime error. I will post pictures of my wiring as well as the code. Thanks!

Wiring:

Code:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
#blink function
def blink(pin):
    GPIO.output(pin, GPIO.HIGH)
    time.sleep(1)
    GPIO.output(pin, GPIO.LOW)
    time.sleep(1)
    return
#Use raspberry pi board numbers
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
#GPIO output channel
GPIO.setup(pin, GPIO.OUT)

for i in range(0,50):
    blink(11)
GPIO.cleanup()

Answer 1

In your script, you have:

GPIO.setup(7, GPIO.OUT)

and then you call blink(11), which will lead to calling:

GPIO.output(11, GPIO.HIGH)

That is, the pin numbers don't match. You want to change both to 7 or both to 11.

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

def blink(pin):
    GPIO.output(pin, GPIO.HIGH)
    time.sleep(1)
    GPIO.output(pin, GPIO.LOW)
    time.sleep(1)

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(pin, GPIO.OUT)

pin = 7
blink(pin)