How to do multitasking?

[mapokapo]

What I’m trying to do is get my mBot to move forward while, at the same time, blinking red/blue every 0.5 seconds interchangably. Also, while it blinks, I must have it also do stuff like move right/left and use the line follower for detecting a black surface. Any help?

[Andreas]

a) Learn to use the search function please

b) are you in the same class? See the answer here

mBot multitasking

Reset the timer. Then run a loop while the timer is smaller than the desired runtime. Inside the loop, do all your actions depending on the current value of the timer, for example: - change the light color if the last change is more than 0.5 seconds in the past - start moving after 10 seconds - stop moving after 15 seconds - ...

[RLR_ENL]

If you are using Arduino iDA you can follow this guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/multi-tasking-the-arduino-part-1/using-millis-for-timing.