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Hello,

I have been trying to make an Arduino Kitchen Timer for quite some time now. After lots of troubleshooting I have managed to get it almost working! So far the design is that a normal LED Bar Graph counts up when a button is held, then each LED turns off every five minutes. The code so far is as follows:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4hwd25wf0n8qq91

The Fritzing sketch is as follows, but please note that LEDs are not used!



The issue that I am struggling with at the moment is not one of Hardware, I know that it all works and is in theory wired correctly. At the moment I am noticing that when the 6th LED bar lights up there is more of a delay, and that the timer is not counting past 5 mins. I have also not wired in the Piezo speaker as I don't have on.

I hope you can help me
Ari

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The link in your post produces rather nasty pop-up advertisements.  Please remove the link or I will ask the moderators to consider your message spam and remove it.

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If you have nothing to do in the else block, just omit it. Empty else blocks look silly.

Some useful reading here:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Array

Why is there a 3 second delay in setup()? Are you waiting for the genie to appear and clean the kitchen?

More useful reading:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/For
Computers are good at repetition. Let the cooper replicate the code (by using a loop) instead of you doing it using copy/paste.

Also:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Increment

Code:

   analogWrite(speakerOut,128);

The analogWrite() function only works on PWM pins. Pin 1 is NOT a PWM pin.

At the moment I am noticing that when the 6th LED bar lights up there is more of a delay, and that the timer is not counting past 5 mins. I have also not wired in the Piezo speaker as I don't have on.

Have you tried using Serial.print() to see what is happening? Of course, you'll need to change the value in speakerOut, since pin 1 is part of the hardware serial port.

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My Apologies 'Coding Badly', as you will see the code I would like to post exceeds the maximum message length for the forum so I have had to post it elsewhere, I will look for an alternative place to post it.

The 3 second delay is giving people time to reset the device then press and hold the button, it is just for ease of use - but thank you for the help, I will have a look at the background reading that you have offered.

Thanks! 

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Are you waiting for the genie to appear and clean the kitchen?

And when she's finished, can you send her over?