LCD Menu A-Level Project

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I am planning to make a LCD based project. It will use many different buttons as inputs.

The aim is to get the LCD to display a button name, then time from the message being displayed and the user pressing the button.

I have some ideas, but don't know the best way to go about:

  • Storing/calling 1-2 line, 16 character messages
  • Testing for inputs, sometimes more than one at a time

Any help please? Cheers,

Ben

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Hi Ben

I suggest you break the project into steps.
First get the LCD going using one of the example sketches.

Then modify the sketch to detect and display a message when a button is pressed.

Then add code to measure and display the time for a button press.
Then add code to handle multiple events.

If you do it in easy steps it shouldn't be difficult.

Have fun!

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Cheers, i'll have a go at displaying some messages. Then i'll try and get events to link to diffrent messages; and develop on for there.

:slight_smile:

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Please keep us posted here with your progress :slight_smile:

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To time the length between a point and an input, would i:

  • Set a variable with millis() say StartTime
  • Start the display/time function
  • Then to get time taken do: millis() - StartTime?
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yep