R: R: R: [PD] Arduino
B. Bogart
ben at ekran.org
Wed Aug 30 20:38:43 CEST 2006
I'm guessing Davide is already doing this, as of course it is always a
good idea for analog inputs! (digital inputs too actually) "floating" is
not great.
In my tests I'm using two sensors and grounding all the other inputs.
.b.
Martin Peach wrote:
> B. Bogart wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I'll try and test this today, would it work if I connected the same
>> sensor to all the analog ins? I don't have enough space on my board for
>> 8 voltage dividers!
>>
>>
> You could ground all the inputs except the one you want to test. Not
> sure about the arduino but often floating analog inputs will read the
> same as adjacent connected inputs because the charge is just sitting on
> the pins with nowhere to go.
>
> Martin
>
>
>> .b.
>>
>> Davide Morelli wrote:
>>
>>>> Which version are you using? There was some bugs in the past, for
>>>> sure. I think I got the analogs in, digital outs, and digital ins
>>>> all working now. The latest version broke the hardware PWM control,
>>>> but we are also adding software PWM support. Try the latest
>>>> versions in CVS: externals/hardware/arduino.
>>>>
>>> I did "cvs update" on 28th August, right before compiling.
>>>
>>> Have you tried the firmware with more than 3 analog inputs?
>>>
>>> if yes then I'll try your firmware again, maybe i messed something up...
>>>
>>>
>>>> As for adding the pin number, I think its redundant, you can just
>>>> use a header byte (255) then byte order to determine pin #, and that
>>>> will save you 5 bytes per cycle (12 bytes versus 7 bytes). Part of
>>>> the goal of the Pduino firmware is to make is communicate as fast as
>>>> possible so that people can make usable instruments with it, and
>>>> make snappy interactions. There are a number of strange things in
>>>> the firmware the arise because of this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> yes, you're right, the pin number is redundant, I used it just to
>>> debug. I
>>> didn't meant that you should use it in Pduino, it was just an example of
>>> working firmware..
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>> davide.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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