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I have the basic atom lab board, Item Id: B0262

Still learning all the commands and such, I wanted to do the following, just to see if I could get it to work:

when I press a button, LED should turn on. If this same button is released in less than one second, LED should turn off; however ... if button is held for one second or longer, LED should blink 3 times before doing the shutoff. Had a feeling that pulsin command would help, as it could be for measuring button press times, for which then, the value stored into the variable of pulsin command would determine whether to shut off LED or to blink LED.

This is my attempt, but not sure why it was not working, if anybody can enlighten me a bit, I'd appreciate it, and thanks in advance

Problem Code:
First, remove the high p0 command. You are trying to use p0 as an input so setting it to a high output is wrong.

Not necessary code:
Also all pins are inputs on reset so you don't have to do the first input p0 command at all. Same goes for the output p1 command, the high p1 command will make the pin an output and set it high without needing the output p1 command.



The timeout argument tells pulsin to jump to LEDBlink of no pulse has been received in the specified time. Also, since you are not looping, you don't need the main label at all. You don't need the conditionals in this case since any pulse less than the time would cause the LEDoff code to run and any other pulse or lack of said pulse will cause the code to execute LEDblink.

You may need to change the second argument of pulsin from 0 to 1, depends on how your button is wired up.

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The button currently is normally high because of a 10K pullup resistor. Button goes low upon me pressing it.

I think pulsin direction should be 0, as button timer should start checking from high->low transition of the input pulse.


So I'll give the code a try, see if it does what I'd like correctly this time.