Basically, i'm wanting to make a steady hand game.
I was thinking of having a number of 'lives' and would like to be able to write a programme that will count down one for every life lost (everytime the loop touches the wire) say from 5 to 0 and display the amount of lives on a 7-segment display.
I've used MPASM before so i have some idea of what i'm doing but i decided it would make my life easier to do it in picaxe.
The only way i can see from the picaxe manuals to do it is to have 7 outputs and one input and use whether the input is high or low to call and return from sub-routines which make the corresponding number of outputs go high to show the number on the 7-segment display.
Surely there is an easier, more time effective and less tedious way of doing it than this?!
Also, i'd like to be able to encorporate a down-counting time period to it if i could? I'm also planning to have an LED sequence for a 'win' and 'lose' situtation but i can do that myself.
I know it's a little ambitious for what picaxe knowledge i have so any help would be great.
I was thinking of having a number of 'lives' and would like to be able to write a programme that will count down one for every life lost (everytime the loop touches the wire) say from 5 to 0 and display the amount of lives on a 7-segment display.
I've used MPASM before so i have some idea of what i'm doing but i decided it would make my life easier to do it in picaxe.
The only way i can see from the picaxe manuals to do it is to have 7 outputs and one input and use whether the input is high or low to call and return from sub-routines which make the corresponding number of outputs go high to show the number on the 7-segment display.
Surely there is an easier, more time effective and less tedious way of doing it than this?!
Also, i'd like to be able to encorporate a down-counting time period to it if i could? I'm also planning to have an LED sequence for a 'win' and 'lose' situtation but i can do that myself.
I know it's a little ambitious for what picaxe knowledge i have so any help would be great.