Psyral Infection said

jiggles the clown said
pulling my god damn hair out trying to figure out this code. 

I don't wanna get too technical, but making an LED blink a pattern, or do morse code or something, is a lot fucking harder than it looks without using the delay() function, which sucks for code because it literally pauses the code for however many miliseconds you tell it to delay for - which means it can't do anything else.  

I am assuming you are using C++.  Since you don't have a good way to multi-thread, you can use a main loop methodology. 

Not sure what your required logic is but the idea is you never use any delay(). It will require some time calculations. If it was morse code, you could setup an array of time deltas between a toggleLight() function. The loops checks the amount of time passed and if it is more than the next time delta in the queue, then call toggleLight().  

Again, not sure what you are making exactly, but if the project has many possible actions that can be handled, you may want to go further and turn the main loop into a message queue handler.

Unfortunately, the Arduino does not have a great way to multithread so you have to resort to a main loop or even a main loop message queue handler.

If you want any assistance, let me know. I have been coding for a living for close to 30 years. While c++ is not my language of choice (I like c#), I can most likely still help.  

I'm not actually sure what language arduino uses exactly, I think either c or c++.

right now I'm working on a mod for a warhammer valkyrie to control LEDs and MP3 files through a miniDFplayer, controlled via bluetooth, currently what I have is some LEDs that I can turn on/off, and I can access MP3 files from the DF player on command. I think i found some decent code that i can modify to make work here; https://techtotinker.blogspot.com/2020/08/sos-flasher-using-millis-function-with.html but I can't test it right now since my workshop is too fucking hot in this PNW bullshit weather right now.

Psyral Infection said

That blog post is great code. That is the main loop idea perfectly.  I think you got this. 

I would love to see a vid of the final project afterwards.  

Oh, yeah. My plan is once i get the code working and learn how to code a bit better, to try to turn this into a side hustle. I've got 3-4 ideas for personal projects that I planned on using as proof of concept, so I fully intend on showing this shit off.

I can't test it right now since my workshop is too fucking hot in this PNW bullshit weather right now.  

Dude, that weekend was fuckin brutal. Even the wind was hot...

downloaded an app called card castle on my phone and I spent the past few hours scanning magic the gathering cards only scanned a couple of hundred so far and found lots of $10+ cards and a few $40 cards I still have thousands more to scan I been buying them for over 25 years now and just hoarded them in longboxes until now.

I wish I did the same thing with pokemon cards

Old Mr Dangerous said
I'm currently fucking a sheep cus I'm a b-aaa-aaa-aaa-d motherfucker!  

considering you are who you are

that comes off as a cringe

you raping an animal does not seem out of place

fits your character perfectly

turned out i fucked up and bought the wrong arduino initially; was working with arduino nano but what i really needed was an arduino mini pro; minor fuck up since all it requires is buying different chips and slightly changing some of the code, but I'm a little annoyed at myself for buying the wrong shit.

that said, I'm taking the time to work on the code of my other projects, deciding how simple or complicated I want some of them to be.

Old Mr Dangerous said
Wondering when the lineup for GOTJ 2021 is going to be released. 

All I heard is the PSY roster and Kissing Candice.  

honestly i almost wouldn't be surprised if thats all they had coming. it's, what? like a month and a half away and thats all they have announced so far?

They just posted Struggle Jennings tour dates, his ends just before GOTJ, as dows RA the Rugged Man's tour. Jelly Roll has a show on the 20th in Irving TX. Im guessing those 3 have some stage time at the Gathering.

I just found out I need surgery the week after the Gathering [26th] to get the stents out of my liver and pancreas. It was either that or the 17th. I just hope I don't get sick after I get home. I'm kinda pissed, I wanted to take my dad to a KISS concert on the 26th.

Old Mr Dangerous said

Christ Almighty, dawg... hang in there!  

I should be good, this is just them removing the work they did in June. Hopefully I don't go all jaundiced again, that wasn't fun.