I have my project announce that it is starting up by playing one of 15 files in a folder. it used to play all 15 files. then, it did not. I wrote a sketch to determine the randomness of the numbers. regardless of how I derive my random seed, I get one of two random numbers, 1 or 8 analogRead(A0) w…

random numbers run dumb

anon57585045 January 23, 2021, 8:00pm 4

How about this?

long seed;
while (not Serial3.available() ) { seed++; }

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