non-blocking-newping.cpp

/*
	Daniel Andrade - www.danielandrade.net
 	non blocking classes for NewPing sonars
*/

#include <NewPing.h>

class Sonar : public NewPing
{
	// Class Member Variables
	// Initialized
	int trigPin;	// Trigger
	int echoPin;	// Echo 

	// Current Readings
	int distance;					// measured distance
	unsigned long previousMillis;	// last time we did a reading

	// Constructor - creates a sonar
	// and initialize member variables
	public : Sonar(int trig, int echo) : NewPing(trig, echo, 90), trigPin(trig), echoPin(echo), previousMillis(0) 
	{

	}

	void updateSonar()
	{
		// check if the time has passed (more than 30ms)
		unsigned long currentMillis = millis();

		// if it has passed more than 30ms
		if(currentMillis - previousMillis >= 30)
		{
			previousMillis = millis();
			// read current distance
			distance = ping_cm();
		}
	}

	int currentDistance() { return distance; }
};

// Create the instances for our sonars
Sonar sonar1(2,3);
Sonar sonar2(5,4);

void setup()
{

}

void loop()
{
	sonar1.updateSonar();
	sonar2.updateSonar();

	int distance1 = sonar1.currentDistance();
	int distance2 = sonar2.currentDistance();

	Serial.print(distance1);
	Serial.print(" - ");
	Serial.println(distance2);
}

Weird, NewPing already supports NewPing::timer_ms