Yesterday I started programming again with Arduino.
First thing I setup the Eclipse environment and to test it I ran the very simple blink program.
void setup() {
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
delay(100);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
delay(100);
}
Then, I wanted to go OO, so I wrote a class to represent a blinking object!
Header:
class Blink {
private:
unsigned long _onInterval;
unsigned long _offInterval;
uint8_t _blinkingLedId;
bool _ledActivity;
public:
Blink(unsigned long onInterval, unsigned long offInterval, uint8_t blinkingLedId);
void oneBlink();
void setLedActivity(bool ledActivity);
};
Implementation:
Blink::Blink(unsigned long onInterval, unsigned long offInterval, uint8_t blinkingLedId) :
_onInterval(onInterval), _offInterval(offInterval), _blinkingLedId(blinkingLedId)
{
_ledActivity = true;
pinMode(_blinkingLedId, OUTPUT);
}
void Blink::oneBlink()
{
// LED activity disabled?
if (_ledActivity == false)
return;
// ON
digitalWrite(_blinkingLedId, HIGH);
delay(_onInterval);
// OFF
digitalWrite(_blinkingLedId, LOW);
delay(_offInterval);
}
void Blink::setLedActivity(bool ledActivity) {
_ledActivity = ledActivity;
}
Main:
Blink *b;
void setup() {
b = new Blink(2000, 2000, 13);
}
void loop() {
b->oneBlink();
}
Well, okay, OOP doesn’t add anything to the story here, but how about having a blinking object instead of a procedural set of blinking statements :D? Exciting!
Thanks for this – finding basic info on Arduino Object Syntax is hard. I’m still learning (which is good).
Here is a suggested change – problem with your blink class is that it can’t be used for anything else as it waits for the delay statements – add this to your code and you can blink LEDs all day while still doing some other work. just call b->BlinkLed
In Header
private:
unsigned long cycleTime;
void BlinkLed();
in Implementation
void BlinkLed( )
// LED is now on Analog – ran out of pins – LCD uses a lot – Digital Pins are just digitalWrite(….
{
if ( ( millis() – cycleTime ) > _OffInterval ) {
analogWrite( _blinkingLedId, 255 );
}
if ( ( millis() – cycleTime ) > ( _OffInterval + _OnInterval ) ) {
analogWrite( _blinkingLedId, 0 );
cycleTime = millis();
}
}
Hi! Thanks for the comment, you are right :)!
This is a nice improvement.
Thank you vincepii and Tony (for the improvement).
Vincepii, please add some more OOP examples for the Arduino, it was really helpful.