Looping calculation

Hi all,

I'm trying to work with an Arduino and as input I'm using a infrared sensor. Every time something interrupts the infrared beam I get the value true of false. I'm looking for something to create a loop calculation.

I found Hoopsnake, but it hasn't worked for me jet. I'm trying to found a counter that counts the times the value switches from true to false.

Anyone that can help me out?

Thanks,

Arie

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 28, 2015 at 11:58am

Can you be more specific than 'loop calculation'? What are you looking over? What do you want to do each iteration?

Permalink Reply by Arjen Seffinga on January 29, 2015 at 2:36am

I've got a sensor which gives the signal true or false. Every time it switches from true to false I want to add 1.

Example: I start with 0, i move my hand across the sensor and it tells me false, at this moment I want to add 1 to the starting value, but now the starting value should be set to 1. The next time i move my hand across the sensor it should add 1 to the previous value.

I tried using Hoopsnake in the example by switching the toggle button, but its not giving me any result.

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Counting example.gh, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by Matt Gaydon on January 29, 2015 at 4:04am

Try this.. Maybe its too simple though, as just based on your explanation and not your code.

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SWITCH COUNTER.gh, 5 KB

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 29, 2015 at 4:04am

For limited (a few thousand or less) values, you can get away with a data recorder and the Delete Consecutive component.

However if your sensor is spitting out 50 values per second and you want to record 6 hours worth of data, it's obviously not a good idea to keep all values forever. In that case you'll need some custom code that's smart enough to decide when it makes sense to store a new value in a permanent record.