I have project and I need to measure speed of a wheel and i need to know how much time has passed from last press of a button. currently I'm using time.time() which measures seconds. this is my code:
speeds=[]
break_btn = Pin(33,Pin.IN,Pin.PULL_DOWN)
for i in range(1000):
time.sleep(0.07)
if break_btn.value():
time_passed=time.time() - start_time # measuring time passed from last press of button
start_time = time.time() # resetting time of last button press
print(time_passed) # only for debug
if time_passed != 0: # preventing devide by zero error
speeds.append(0.335/time_passed) # using time to measure speed
print(speeds)
I found the answer. I should use time.ticks_ms()
instead of time.time()
and also time.ticks_diff(time.ticks_ms(), start_time) / 1000
instead of time.time() - start_time
. The second part is optional and also I needed to divide it by 1000 to turn milliseconds into seconds.