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You should use a combination of spinOnce() and sleep (have a look at the tutorials). spin() blocks until an error occures or the program receives a sigint (ctrl+c).

Also it may be a good idea to move the spinning to the main loop. A blocking constructor seems like rather bad design... :)

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