I was looking at Nick Gammon's state machine example and had a hard time trying to figure out how he defined his states. I guess state machines is a state of mind. In any case, I used his example to write my version of a state machine, defining the states as how the program is processing the inputs…

State machine comparision

6v6gt November 5, 2017, 2:51pm 17

Here is another state machine tutorial with examples and also appears to be well received.
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=505805.0

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