How to make tower light flash

Technical Questions
1

How do you make your light flash to show green flashing on tower light with Universal Robot?

2

Tie an output from the robot to the ON input of your green light. Then use a Thread like so:

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3

Interesting idea. Hadn’t though of that. You could create logic that sends various signals to the light based on what the robot does. :+1:

4

I made a script that can flash any DO or CO at a variable rate. It ends up looking something like:

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The second parameter is kinda weird, in that it’s a binary position of an integer, not a “period in seconds” type of thing. So for example, putting in a 2 flashes it twice as slow as 1, and 3 is twice as slow as 2, and so on. I’m sure it can be modified to take seconds as the argument instead, but it was a pretty elegant solution for me, since I just needed a “flash fast or slow” type thing.

Found it on my computer, so I’ll include it below. As with most of what I write, I barely remember what I was doing at the time, I just know the functions do what they say lol.

enableDOFlash = [False,False,False,False,False,False,False,False]
DOFlashRate = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

enableCOFlash = [False,False,False,False,False,False,False,False]
COFlashRate = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

def startFlashDO(outputNumber, rate):
  enableDOFlash[outputNumber] = True
  DOFlashRate[outputNumber] = rate
end

def stopFlashDO(outputNumber):
  enableDOFlash[outputNumber] = False
  set_standard_digital_out(outputNumber, False)
end

def startFlashCO(outputNumber, rate):
  enableCOFlash[outputNumber] = True
  COFlashRate[outputNumber] = rate
  set_configurable_digital_out(outputNumber, False)
end

def stopFlashCO(outputNumber):
  enableCOFlash[outputNumber] = False
end
thread flasher():
  count = 0
  while(True):
    global flashArray = integer_to_binary_list(floor(count))
    i = 0
    count = count + 1/500
    if(count >= 50000):
      count = 0
    end
    while(i <= 7):
      if(enableDOFlash[i]):
        DOflashIndex = DOFlashRate[i]
        set_digital_out(i, flashArray[DOFlashRate[i]])
      end
      if(enableCOFlash[i]):
        COflashIndex = COFlashRate[i]
        set_configurable_digital_out(i, flashArray[COFlashRate[i]])
      end
      i = i + 1
    end
  end
end
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