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Bezos clock idea</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">\u201cAs yet undetermined\u201d meaning for instance, once attributed say to u mark aka space boy with no \u201cslicing\u201d words/intents but rather leap frogging to/for back/forth , again intent wouldn\u2019t
this suggest time \U0001f9ed travel? Does this make sense? </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Further, re: attached clock with no numbers/arms thereby \u201copening\u201d rather than closing time...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Unsigned / shouldn\u2019t it read \u201cas yet unattributed\u201d </div>
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<div class="x_x_PlainText">Quick update:<br>
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You probably want to add unsigned in front of<br>
all the long ints, or adjust the type as needed<br>
(all over, including the "const" values).<br>
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On 2020-11-15 7:13 p.m., Mark G. wrote:<br>
> Hi George,<br>
> <br>
> Here's a quick outline of an ActionTimer class. What<br>
> do you make of it?<br>
> <br>
> Mark<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On 2020-11-15 6:07 p.m., George Bowden wrote:<br>
>> I have two "identical" functions for time slicing the Arduino loop. <br>
>> One function is called to see if it is time to toggle the LED every <br>
>> second, and the other "identical" function is called to see if it is <br>
>> time to send a post to the website every few minutes. These functions <br>
>> seem good candidates for a single C++ class, and I'm looking for some <br>
>> advice, never having coded a class before. Maybe it's a coding <br>
>> challenge? I'm using Arduinos millis() which increments continuously <br>
>> and the modulus of that, with a different period value passed to the <br>
>> functions, to determine when to act. When the modulus remainder is <br>
>> smaller than the last time through the loop, it is time to take <br>
>> action. (the vertical line in the stairs)<br>
>><br>
>> image.png<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Each instance of the class needs its own static variable for the value <br>
>> of mod'ed millis() last time through the loop. I would like to write <br>
>> a class which I instantiate with NEW for each different period, .... <br>
>> I would like to put these in a library that I could include in any of <br>
>> my projects that need time sliced<br>
>><br>
>> Here is how I have coded it as functions:<br>
>><br>
>> unsigned long lastPostMillis=0; // the value of the modulus last time <br>
>> through the loop.<br>
>> unsigned long lastBlinkMillis=0;<br>
>><br>
>> bool isPostTime(unsigned long int period){<br>
>> if(millis() % period > lastPostMillis) {<br>
>> lastPostMillis = millis()% period;<br>
>> return true;<br>
>> }<br>
>> else {<br>
>> lastPostMillis = millis() % period;<br>
>> return false;<br>
>> }<br>
>> }<br>
>> bool isBlinkTime(unsigned long int period){<br>
>> int blinkPeriod = 500;<br>
>> if(millis() % blinkPeriod > lastBlinkMillis) {<br>
>> lastBlinkMillis = millis()% period;<br>
>> return true;<br>
>> }<br>
>> else {<br>
>> lastBlinkMillis = millis()% period;<br>
>> return false;<br>
>> }<br>
>> }<br>
>> void setup() {...<br>
>> }<br>
>> void loop() {<br>
>> if (isPostTime(minutesBetweenPosts*60000)) { //time to send a Post <br>
>> to the website<br>
>> ...<br>
>> if(isBlinkTime(500)){<br>
>> toggle builtin led}<br>
>> } // end loop<br>
>> -- <br>
>> George Bowden, 250-893-7423<br>
>> gtbowdeng@gmail.com<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:gtbowdeng@gmail.com">mailto:gtbowdeng@gmail.com</a>><br>
>><br>
> <br>
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