Request: timer function

[nataliefreed]

It would be super helpful to have a time elapsed block, similar to Arduino's millis(), or Scratch's 'timer' and 'reset timer' blocks in the sensing category. Ideally it would go down at least to milliseconds - either in seconds as a floating point number, or in milliseconds.

Apologies if I've missed something that already exists. Thank you!

[abchatra]

@nataliefreed In Circuit Playground Express editor we have "Get the number of milliseconds of time passed since the board was turned on." block. See https://makecode.adafruit.com/reference/control/millis

Is that what you need?

[nataliefreed]

Yes! That's it. I do like that Scratch also has a 'reset timer' block so you can make it start again at 0 (math with millis is hard for beginners to understand). But millis alone would already be hugely helpful.