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(u)asyncio is the precise root cause of this topic. I wasn't getting any traction on StackOverflow, Reddit, or Discord, so I switched vernaculars and asked about non-blocking timers/threads instead. On March 20, I posted a uasyncio q on Stack ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60764372/cant-seem-...

I'll handle the input comparator and the display output later, no problem. I just need help at this point getting a timer working in its own thread. I'll settle for a print("start") and print("end") as long as I can do anything else and not interrupt the timer. I keep seeing the examples that do tic...

Am I not asking the right questions here or is there somewhere else I can look? Reddit pointed me to Discord, Discord pointed me here.

I'm hoping to use a PyBoard as a replacement air hockey table scoreboard. The plan is to have a 4x7seg clock countdown while a couple photo resistors sitting behind the goal lines look for light decreases, signalling a goal. I'm using the TM1697 library to drive the display successfully, and can det...