Blink an led 10 times

sokin

Hello, I am trying to make p26 blink 10 times when wL = 0 and p27 blink 10 times when wR = 0. Here is the code I have to modify to make that happen but I am confused on where to start. A hint that is on the parallax website is to nest a for loop inside an if statement. Does anyone have any suggestion about how to go about this?



#include "simpletools.h" // Include simpletools header

int main() // main function
{
freqout(4, 10, 3000); // Speaker tone: P4, 2 s, 3 kHz
while(1) // Endless loop
{
int wL = input(7); // Left whisker -> wL variable
int wR = input(8); // Right whisker -> wR variable
if(wL == 0) // Light for left whisker
{
high(26);
pause(50);
low(26);
pause(50);
}
if(wR == 0) // Light for right whisker
{
high(27);
pause(50);
low(27);
pause(50);
}
print("%c", HOME); // Terminal cursor home (top-left)
print("wL = %d wR = %d", wL, wR); // Display whisker variables
pause(50); // Pause 50 ms before repeat
}
}

twm47099

Between the "{" and "}" for the if statement:

if(wL == 0) // Light for left whisker

put your existing code into a for loop for the number of times you want the led 26 to blink.

Tom

sokin

I am still a little confused about how the for statement has the p26 blink 10 times. The only type of for statement I have done is where it would count to a certain number and stop like this.
for(int wL = 0; wL <= 10; wL++);

Should I be including P26 in the for statement or not?

Thanks

twm47099

You will just put the code you wrote to turn the LED on and off one time into a for loop that cycles 10 times. Use a new variable, for example "int i" as the counting index.

if(wL == 0) // Light for left whisker
{
  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
  {
    high(26);
    pause(50);
    low(26);
    pause(50);
   }
}

I hope this helps.
Tom

sokin

Tom,

This helps a lot.

Thanks for your time