4 Reaction Timer
An average human reacts to a visual stimulus, like a light turning on, in about 215 milliseconds. This is the time it takes for a signal you see with your eyes to travel to your brain and out to your limbs to respond. The reaction timer is a great project to demonstrate this time delay, and it also makes for a fun game! How fast are you and your friends?
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to build your own reaction timer using Arduino. The full project is shown in Figure 4-1. The concept behind it is simple: the Arduino will turn on an LED, start a timer, and wait until you press a button. When you see the LED turn on, you press the button as quickly as you can, and the Arduino will report back to your computer the time between ...
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