Arduino supporting a timer tick thread

[prairiemystic]

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.

[AWOL]

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?

[prairiemystic]

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"?

[AWOL]

Is there any agreement the Arduino F/W architecture needs to move beyond a single thread, the "big loop"?

From me? No, not really.

[pert]

Couldn't this be done / isn't this already possible via a library?