At the moment I am importing the following libraries in the 1st frame of the animation, where I also have your ‘Flash – Arduino Example script’ pasted:

import flash.utils.getTimer;
import flash.display.Sprite;

Then on the frame in the animation where I am sending the signal to the Arduino I currently have this:

// Set Arduino outputs
a.writeDigitalPin(6,1);

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 1); // 1 second
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, runOnce);
myTimer.start();

function runOnce(event:TimerEvent):void {
trace(“runOnce() called @ ” + getTimer() + ” ms”);
}

// Set Arduino outputs
a.writeDigitalPin(6,0);

I copied this code from another example I found online of the Timer function. At the moment this is not returning any errors, but it also not causing any delay between the output pin being on and off – it flashes momentarily and not for the 1 second delay I thought I had set above.

If you have any suggestions about what I’m going wrong, that would be helpful! Does the frame rate of the movie affect this at all?

Thanks again for your help, Ellie

I thinks you used the Firmata example in this post or not?

In Actionscript 3 you could use thesetTimeOut function or a Timer that runs one time (I’ve linked to the actionscript language reference).

If you used the messenger script you could also program it in Arduino code with an interval: See programming interval or the blink without delay example in the Arduino IDE.

Thanks so much for this tutorial, it’s helped me so much with my project, which you can view here, if you’re interested:
http://www.vimeo.com/ellieharrison/privatisation

I need to re-write my code very slightly and I’m not an expert on this – actionscript or arduino – so I was hoping you could help?!

In one of the frames in my Flash animation, I use the actionscript code to send a signal to the arduino output:

a.writeDigitalPin(6,1);

This works fine, but what I would like is for this to then delay for 1/12 second and then to switch off again. At the moment I am trying this code below, but it doesn’t like the ‘Delay’ command. Do you have any suggestions as to what I should write instead? Many thanks, Ellie Harrison

a.writeDigitalPin(6,1);
delay(83); // wait for 1/12 second
a.writeDigitalPin(6,0);