11/*
22 Esplora Table
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4- Acts like a keyboard that prints some of its sensors'
4+ Acts like a keyboard that prints sensor
55 data in a table-like text, row by row.
6- It is a sort of "data-logger".
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8- At startup, it does nothing. It just waits for you to open a
9- spreadsheet (e.g. Google Drive spreadsheet) so it can put its
10- data. Then, by pressing Switch 1, it starts printing the table
7+ At startup, it does nothing. It waits for you to open a
8+ spreadsheet (e.g. Google Drive spreadsheet) so it can write
9+ data. By pressing Switch 1, it starts printing the table
1110 headers and the first row of data. It waits a bit, then it
1211 will print another row, and so on.
1312
14- The amount of time between each row is given by the slider.
13+ The amount of time between each row is determined by the slider.
1514 If put to full left, the sketch will wait 10 seconds; at
1615 full right position, it will wait 5 minutes. An intermediate
1716 position will make the sketch wait for some time in-between.
@@ -175,17 +174,12 @@ void logAndPrint() {
175174}
176175
177176/* *
178- * Similar to delay(), but allows to do something else
179- * in the meanwhile. In particular, it calls waitLoop ().
177+ * Similar to delay(), but allows the program to do something else
178+ * in the meanwhile. In particular, it calls checkSwitchPress ().
180179 * Note 1: it may wait longer than the specified amount, not less;
181180 * Note 2: beware of data synchronization issues, e.g. if the
182- * whileWaiting () function alters some variables used by the
181+ * activeDelay () function alters some variables used by the
183182 * caller of this function.
184- *
185- * I discovered by chance that there's an ongoing discussion about
186- * adding yield() in the Arduino API:
187- * http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.arduino.devel/1381
188- * The purpose is the same, but for now I'm using this implementation.
189183 */
190184void activeDelay (unsigned long amount) {
191185 unsigned long at = millis () + amount;
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