I’m new to this and I have a motor working using the following sketch and the Arduino motor shield rev3. I also have an RTC hooked up to a breadboard and telling me the right time using the following sketch. Now I need to somehow combine the two of them to tell my motor to turn on twice a day in 12 hour intervals for 30 minutes at a time. Does anyone know how to combine the following sketches or have a better sketch/suggestion I should use? Thanks in advance.
Motor Sketch:
// ConstantSpeed.pde
// -*- mode: C++ -*-
//
// Shows how to run AccelStepper in the simplest,
// fixed speed mode with no accelerations
// Requires the AFMotor library (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Motor-Shield-library)
// And AccelStepper with AFMotor support (https://github.com/adafruit/AccelStepper)
// Public domain!
#include <AccelStepper.h>
#include <AFMotor.h>
AF_Stepper motor1(200, 1);
// you can change these to DOUBLE or INTERLEAVE or MICROSTEP!
void forwardstep() {
motor1.onestep(FORWARD, SINGLE);
}
void backwardstep() {
motor1.onestep(BACKWARD, SINGLE);
}
AccelStepper stepper(forwardstep, backwardstep); // use functions to step
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600); // set up Serial library at 9600 bps
Serial.println("Stepper test!");
stepper.setSpeed(50);
}
void loop()
{
stepper.runSpeed();
}
RTC Sketch:
// Date and time functions using a DS1307 RTC connected via I2C and Wire lib
#include <Wire.h>
#include "RTClib.h"
RTC_DS1307 RTC;
void setup () {
Serial.begin(9600);
Wire.begin();
RTC.begin();
if (! RTC.isrunning()) {
Serial.println("RTC is NOT running!");
// following line sets the RTC to the date & time this sketch was compiled
RTC.adjust(DateTime(__DATE__, __TIME__));
}
}
void loop () {
DateTime now = RTC.now();
Serial.print(now.year(), DEC);
Serial.print('/');
Serial.print(now.month(), DEC);
Serial.print('/');
Serial.print(now.day(), DEC);
Serial.print(' ');
Serial.print(now.hour(), DEC);
Serial.print(':');
Serial.print(now.minute(), DEC);
Serial.print(':');
Serial.print(now.second(), DEC);
Serial.println();
Serial.print(" since midnight 1/1/1970 = ");
Serial.print(now.unixtime());
Serial.print("s = ");
Serial.print(now.unixtime() / 86400L);
Serial.println("d");
// calculate a date which is 7 days and 30 seconds into the future
DateTime future (now.unixtime() + 7 * 86400L + 30);
Serial.print(" now + 7d + 30s: ");
Serial.print(future.year(), DEC);
Serial.print('/');
Serial.print(future.month(), DEC);
Serial.print('/');
Serial.print(future.day(), DEC);
Serial.print(' ');
Serial.print(future.hour(), DEC);
Serial.print(':');
Serial.print(future.minute(), DEC);
Serial.print(':');
Serial.print(future.second(), DEC);
Serial.println();
Serial.println();
delay(3000);
}
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