Hi! My serial monitor is "misspells" stuff. Im not sure what the cause of that is, but it would simply miss a letter or outputs extra spaces randomly in between. Here is an example (image attached) where it wont add 'o' at the end of "Hello" after first print. There is nothing in the code that tells it to do that. Other times it would add extra spaces in between lines. The board is Uno by Osepp in Canada. It's my first Arduino board and i've been happy with it so far, haven't had much problems with hit before.
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Hey, thanks, will do. I wasn't sure if should post it, it's kinda ugly and incomplete. It doesn't affect the function but I'm just really curious why it's doing it.
Best Regards
#include "pitches.h"
const int cook = 25;
const int relax = 25;
int soundDelayTime = 15;
const int cookTimes = 9;
const int relaxTimes = 8;
int led; // the PWM pin the LED is atteched to
int red = 9;
int blue = 10;
int green = 11;
int buzzerPin = 8;
unsigned long chronos;
float seconds;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(led, OUTPUT); // declares pin to be an output
}
void loop()
{
chronos = millis();
Serial.println("Hello World");
Serial.print("Time in milsec: ");
Serial.println(chronos);
seconds = chronos / 1000;
Serial.print("Time in sec: ");
Serial.println(seconds,0);
int cookCounter;
for (cookCounter = 0; cookCounter < cookTimes; cookCounter++)
{
analogWrite(green, 255);
alert();
delay(cook);
analogWrite(green, 0);
if (cookCounter < relaxTimes)
{
analogWrite(red, 255);
alert();
delay(relax);
analogWrite(red, 0);
}
}
analogWrite(blue, 255);
alert();
delay(50);
analogWrite(blue, 0);
}
void alert()
{
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_C6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_D6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_E6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_F6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_G6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_A6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_B6, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
tone(buzzerPin, NOTE_C7, soundDelayTime);
delay(soundDelayTime);
}
I noticed in the final Serial.println() command you have the following:
Serial.println(seconds,0);
With the Serial.println() command, there can be two arguments inside he parenthesis, the first being the data, and the second being the format of he data, such as printing a number in decimal, hexadecimal, or binary format. This may cause errors if you try to print data or text afterwards. In the screen capture you put, the first sequence of printing is successful, but after that there are errors. Try deleting the zero and the comma in that last command like below and see if that works.
I noticed in the final Serial.println() command you have the following:
Serial.println(seconds,0);
With the Serial.println() command, there can be two arguments inside he parenthesis, the first being the data, and the second being the format of he data, such as printing a number in decimal, hexadecimal, or binary format. This may cause errors if you try to print data or text afterwards. In the screen capture you put, the first sequence of printing is successful, but after that there are errors. Try deleting the zero and the comma in that last command like below and see if that works.
