Recently I have been working on the new api for the Arduino Random library. The library now has methods that return different integer sizes from byte to long. I’m not sure if I’ll add long long though as the delay would be too great. This is because the library will block the MCU until it has gathered all of the entropy. If the source of randomness going into the Arduino’s ADC is not very random the library can take a long time to generate the bits. This is especially true of the von neumann debiasing code since it truncates long stretches of ones or zeros.
The library is based on code by Rob Seward albeit heavily modified. Most of the debiasing code remains the same as well as the calibration code. The new code is now up on Github at https://github.com/infomaniac50/Random/. Feel free to fork away and make changes as you see fit. If you use the code please include links back to this blog. I’m sure Rob would like to see some attribution to him as well.
If anybody has any questions feel free to leave a comment, but please, only if you are human.
