Boe-Bot program motion and flashing light

Puplova

I have been trying to make my Boe-Bot move in just a forward direction for now and simultaneously have an LED flash while it is driving. I tried using a series of do loops but, they would just run the program sequentially instead of simultaneously. I have done research and I haven't gotten a solid answer. I am using the basic stamp BS2 module and the 2.5 version of the PBasic language on Basic stamp editor. Any help would be appreciated.

Hal Albach

The BS2 can only do sequential program execution, 1 task at a time. You can use the time between servo refresh to blink an LED and possibly some other tasks, but it will be up to you to make sure the servo refresh pulses are not interrupted, that would cause the servos to slow down or stop.
If you need concurrent programs executing at the same time then you may want to upgrade the board to a Propeller Activity Board and use the 8 parallel processors to do the magic.

erco

Try something like this (untested):

do
toggle 0 ' toggle LED on pin0
for b0=1 to 50 'drive for a second
pulsout 12, 650
pulsout 13,850
pause 20
next
loop

Puplova

Thank you both this code did work on the Boe-bot I am using.

erco

Excellent, happy it worked for you. Welcome to the forums, keep on plugging away!