Is it possable to make a flip flop program?

Prettybird

· Getting creative with my first bot. I have several·2 on,off channels on a parallax R/C controller board. I would like to use one as a program stop and start to control a·disable enable·for a roaming with ping. The Boe book says nothing of this. I am a newbee and know what can be done with software but not a programmer. Any ideas would be appreciatted. I like this room alot.

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Beau Schwabe

Prettybird,

To implement a switch toggle look at the section in the BOE that goes over switches (The Whisker section)...

page 182 on the Roboticsv2_2.pdf

... only instead of whiskers you use a switch. To Toggle, or "Flip-Flop", when you detect a switch closure in your program you can do something like...

PSEUDO Code Example:

If ButtonSwitch = 0 then
   ToggleSwitch = 1 - ToggleSwitch    ' This line is your Flip Flop
   PAUSE 250                          ' Pause for 1/4 second - helps with switch debouncing

...In the rest of your program, you look to see what the state of ToggleSwitch is. If it's a "1" then run your program as usual, if it's a "0" SLEEP, and monitor the switch periodically.

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Beau Schwabe

IC Layout Engineer
Parallax, Inc.