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Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/Esplora/examples/EsploraTable')
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/Esplora/examples/EsploraTable/EsploraTable.ino | 22 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/Esplora/examples/EsploraTable/EsploraTable.ino b/libraries/Esplora/examples/EsploraTable/EsploraTable.ino index 73d5652..712dffa 100644 --- a/libraries/Esplora/examples/EsploraTable/EsploraTable.ino +++ b/libraries/Esplora/examples/EsploraTable/EsploraTable.ino @@ -1,17 +1,16 @@ /* Esplora Table - Acts like a keyboard that prints some of its sensors' + Acts like a keyboard that prints sensor data in a table-like text, row by row. - It is a sort of "data-logger". - At startup, it does nothing. It just waits for you to open a - spreadsheet (e.g. Google Drive spreadsheet) so it can put its - data. Then, by pressing Switch 1, it starts printing the table + At startup, it does nothing. It waits for you to open a + spreadsheet (e.g. Google Drive spreadsheet) so it can write + data. By pressing Switch 1, it starts printing the table headers and the first row of data. It waits a bit, then it will print another row, and so on. - The amount of time between each row is given by the slider. + The amount of time between each row is determined by the slider. If put to full left, the sketch will wait 10 seconds; at full right position, it will wait 5 minutes. An intermediate position will make the sketch wait for some time in-between. @@ -175,17 +174,12 @@ void logAndPrint() { } /** - * Similar to delay(), but allows to do something else - * in the meanwhile. In particular, it calls waitLoop(). + * Similar to delay(), but allows the program to do something else + * in the meanwhile. In particular, it calls checkSwitchPress(). * Note 1: it may wait longer than the specified amount, not less; * Note 2: beware of data synchronization issues, e.g. if the - * whileWaiting() function alters some variables used by the + * activeDelay() function alters some variables used by the * caller of this function. - * - * I discovered by chance that there's an ongoing discussion about - * adding yield() in the Arduino API: - * http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.arduino.devel/1381 - * The purpose is the same, but for now I'm using this implementation. */ void activeDelay(unsigned long amount) { unsigned long at = millis() + amount; |