Beginning Arduino Programming

Random Functions

Armed with a decent grasp of how to handle the Arduino delay functions, as well as an advanced method for creating a delay without one, let's look now at some ways to make things less precise with a little randomness. Up to this point, our timing has been fairly straightforward: turn on the LED, wait for 1 second, turn off the LED, wait for another second, and so forth. Each of our delays has been specified to a relatively accurate degree of precision so that a delay of 1000 milliseconds will be reasonably sure to give us a delay of 1 second. But what if we wanted a delay that was somewhere between 250 and 1000 milliseconds and not only that, but this value changed somewhat randomly every time it is accessed?

This is possible ...