Hi, Yes - sorry it won't simulate. Of it was useful it could be converted into a component, with separate implementation to do the simulation. It is also specific to AVR MCUs - although it might be possible to do a similar thing on others (it relies on the port register's having a fixed interval bet...

I had a little play with this. I used an Arduino Uno - however the code will run as is on an Mega. I created a macro SetPin(port, pin, on) - that takes a port ('B', 'C' etc) - this calculates the address of the port register and writes the required value to set the pin on or off. No check is made th...

Hi Stefan,

Yes - it will open a new COM port (see my example above - I think it changed to COM18).

Can you upload you sample project?

Martin

Progress

Do you get any output from the usb?

Martin

The easiest way to do this is with a little C.

For example for port d (assuming the pin is set as an output)

PORTD |= (1 << FCL_PIN);

Will turn on 'pin' without affecting other pins in port d

Martin

Hi Pierre,

Good to hear you have it working. Arrays are very useful - enjoy

I'd be tempted to just use 0 as an invalid reading... then can just do if(.distance) which is slightly more efficient than if (.distance != 9999)


Martin

Hi, Sorry to take so long getting back to this - a few days away... So - in the end I just wired a standard resistor (47K) across R19 (for mode 4). Less than elegant. I then wired to a UART (I used a software port on an Arduino for testing) - and fired off the trigger (1) at 20ms intervals. I connec...

I'm just waiting on some resistors to have a play.... In the UART modes it outputs the length as two bytes - in a 4 byte block (header, datahi, datalo, checksum) - the length is datahi * 256 + datalo So if we catch the data to an array d[4] it would be d[1] x 256 + d[2] The result is in mm The excep...

See viewtopic.php?t=1286&hilit=Hex+to+decimal

Martin

The component only seems to work with the compatibility mode.
The other modes are interesting too though - I'll try and add something to the board so I can easily switch the connection at r19 and play some more....

Martin