It’s not a big thing – but I like my debugging statements to be robust! On the Arduino, if you want to communicate back to the host computer (is ‘host’ the right term here?), then you need to use a … Continue reading →

When timing on the Arduino, it’s common to use the millis() function, which counts the milliseconds the current program has been running. But sometimes you need to do things smaller – enter the microsecond timing function, micros(). However, there’s a … Continue reading →

This was a question I encountered recently – how to take a stream of bytes and break them into parts – not just individual bytes, but bits of bytes. In this case, the code was 2 nybbles in a byte … Continue reading →

In the Arduino forum I’ve noticed a lot of people wanting to run their programs faster, but using delay() in their code. Briefly, delay() waits a specific time before continuing. It makes for simple code, for example: However, coming from … Continue reading →