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Craig
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Stop Arduino Timer after some seconds

I'm building a basic program that when a button is pressed, a buzzer comes on.

I would like however to make it so that the buzzer stops after a short period of time (e.g. 5-7 seconds).

Here is the code I have so far which is pretty basic I know forgive me but I have no clue on how to go forward.

// Setting The Pin Numbers
const int touchsensor = 2;     // the number of the touchsensor pin
const int buzzer =  4;         // the number of the LED pin

// variables:
int touchsensorState = 0;      // variable for reading the touchsensor status

void setup() {
  // initialize the buzzer as an output:
  pinMode(buzzer, OUTPUT);
  // initialize the touchsensor as an input:
  pinMode(touchsensor, INPUT);
}

void loop() {
  // read state of the pushbutton value:
  touchsensorState = digitalRead(touchsensor);

  // check if the touch sensor is pressed. If it is, the touchsensorState is HIGH:
  if (touchsensorState == HIGH) {
    // buzzer will emit sound:
    digitalWrite(buzzer, HIGH);
  } else {
    // buzzer will not sound:
    digitalWrite(buzzer, LOW);
  }
}
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