I'd like to ask the Arduino support a timer tick thread
We presently have:
loop() {
}
I ask for i.e.
ticks {
Gets run every say 1msec or 10msec.
}
It would have to be on the newer MCU's that have a free timer, maybe the 328PB and ARM.
Love to see Arduino programming go to the next level, past this one "big loop" which is very limiting.
Kid's robot crashes into a wall because "big loop" wasn't polling things at the right time.
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prairiemystic:
Love to see Arduino programming go to the next level, past this one "big loop" which is very limiting.
Kid's robot crashes into a wall because "big loop" wasn't polling things at the right time.
Is that the real reason, or was the code liberally seasoned with blocking constructs?
That example was actually a science student project. Let's do a state-machine with polling, busy-waiting and expect real-time response lol.
Is there any agreement the Arduino F/W architecture needs to move beyond a single thread, the "big loop"?
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Couldn't this be done / isn't this already possible via a library?