Stopping program after certain time.

[James Venning]

Hi All,

As part of my project I'm working on, I need my program to stop after 29 seconds. Is there some way I can program the picaxe (18x) so it's something like this:

while timer < 29 seconds

run the rest of my program

then stop all outputs

Is that possible?

 

[eclectic]

James.

Can you post your program please?

Then someone can suggest the best method for timing.
(There are several ways to do it).
e.

 

[James Venning]

The program doesn't exist as yet. When it's done it will be various actions that are trigged by what happens on a few distance sensors...

 

[moxhamj]

pseudo code:
start:b13=0
do

  pause 1000' pause a second
  if b13>=29 then end' stop forever
  b13=b13+1
loop


But ending a program forever may not be great - perhaps at least flash a led or something when it ends otherwise it is hard to tell an "ended" program from a zapped chip.