Hi, im tring to do a miltiple timer... its has to do an action after some intervals...
there is also a button read involved and i have no idea on how to do something like:
if millis() == 14000
print 14 secconds...
any examples out there?
if (millis() % 1000 == 0) {
Serial.print(millis()/1000);
Serial.println(" seconds");
}
This will print time since startup, in seconds (at least I think so. snippet NOT TESTED).
In AlphaBeta's example the two calls to millis() may return different values. If that's OK, use his code.
If not, create a local variable:
unsigned long now = millis();
Then, use the local variable, now, in place of both calls to millis.
if (now % 1000 == 0) {
Serial.print(now/1000);
Serial.println(" seconds");
}
If you didn't know already, the % in their code is called modulus. It's the remainder from division. 5 % 3 would equal 2. 7 % 3 equals 1. The modulus is how much is left over.
You could use if (now==14000) to print it just one time.
Actually... when I think about it, I think using % 1000 == 0 is a bad idea because then you need to run that code EXACTLY when the millis return 1000 2000 3000 ...
if ( (now % 1000) < 50 ) {/*second has passed*/ }
This is more likely to work, but then again, you might get more than one printout. You could store a previousSecond variable to check that you only print a second once.
thanks for your replies, this seems to bit a bit more harder than i first tought
so im considering on trying this: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1217881285
i dont need a high precision, but since the last time i played with electronics the most complex thing i learned was about the 555 this a totally different concept
my idea is to have an array or something of 3 times and 3 steps for a servo, so after pressing start those actions should occur