Answers for Dead Reckoning... FOR BEGINNERS

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

its very easy to have a variable that you increment everytime you loop through your auton code, and use that as a rough timer - if it increments in the main loop it will have a 26mS period

I'm doing something even simpler -- I'm simply zeroing a specific variable every time through the 26ms loop. The fast loop code just checks to see when it becomes zero, and maintains its own timers.

If you increment it in the user_fast code it will be even smaller (I forget the period off the top of my head)

Doesn't user_fast just go "as fast as possible"? The period will just depend on how much time it takes to execute the function.

and you dont have to mess with interrupts that way.

Messing with interrupts is, um, messy.