However, most of the Arduino world wouldn't understand event driven code if they tripped over it. They use delay() which is blocking - a bad idea.

Heh, true. Arduino does have the advantage of having made microcontrollers more accessible, but at the cost of people not learning as much about the hardware at a lower level.

I've been working with one lately and I've already run into several issues: that the SD library needs a 512 byte buffer that it apparently allocates dynamically (or at least the complier doesn't detect the need for it, so I manually have to keep an eye on the RAM usage and use globals instead of the stack as much as I can, ugh), that constant strings are stored in RAM, that delay() itself uses interrupts, the low-power library I was using uses the watchdog timer which conflicted with my use of the watchdog... I've learned quite a few things about the libraries by tripping over them.

In reply to Re^4: Call function no more than every 0.1 seconds by haukex
in thread Call function no more than every 0.1 seconds by zapoi

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