count down timing???????

KARIM102

Dear all,
could somebody help me to bulid by using Basic stamp count down timing from O to 10 mins?????
best wishes

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It depends on what you want to do. You can use the PAUSE command, which iterates in milliseconds.

' {$STAMP BS2}
' {$PBASIC 2.5}
Counter VAR Nib
Counter = 0
DO
  PAUSE 60000 ' Pause one minute
  Counter = Counter + 1

LOOP UNTIL (Counter = 10) ' 10 minutes.

Basic stamps are not multiprocessors. If you want to do other processing while the counter is running, you have to get a 555 timer or a DS1302.

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Steve Andrues

The DS1302 is getting to be my "go-to" chip for timing.· Since I want hours, minutes, and seconds (and do not care about month or day of the week) I set the chip for January 1, at midnight.· It reports the time since you reset the counter.· The rest is just some math if you want it to count down.