sharp ir sensor analog im using ADC0831

enkei

im using the sharp ir analog and i read that i need the ADC0831 to convert the signal from analog to digital right?

Amaral

that depends ! witch IR analog from sharp are you using ,, and what are you trying to read !

Chris Savage

Please see the following links for the GP2D12 connection using an ADC0831. This should help get you started either way. Take care.

http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/acc/SharpGP2D12Snrs.pdf

http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/cols/nv/vol5/col/nv114.pdf



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enkei

on the first reply i said is analog, then on the second reply i do have this file can you show me some examples how will i communicate with the SHARP ir in basic stamp code an example of writing i mean

MSDTech

This is what I use with this setup. The Pins on the ADC0831 are IR_CS, IR_Data and IR_CLK for the chip select, data and clock respectively.

'IR Rangefinder Constants from the Sharp datasheet
m CON 3200
b CON 3
k CON 4

Get_IR_Detectors:
· AvgReading = 0
· FOR counter = 1 TO 3 ' Average reading
··· GOSUB ADC0831_Reading ' Get 8 bit data from ADC.
··· AvgReading = AvgReading + (ADResult/3)
··· PAUSE 50
· NEXT
· IR_Range = (m /(AvgReading + b)) - k ' Get ADC0831 distance
RETURN

' Get ADC0831 8 bit data
ADC0831_Reading:
· LOW IR_CS ' Activate the ADC.
· SHIFTIN IR_Data,IR_CLK, ' Get data bits from.
· MSBPOST,[noparse][[/noparse]ADResult\9] ' ADC0831
· HIGH IR_CS ' Deactivate the ADC.
RETURN

Post Edited (MSDTech) : 9/26/2008 8:34:10 PM GMT

enkei

can u explain the steps that you wrote?

MSDTech

These come from the sample code and datasheets on the Crustcrawler web site:

http://www.crustcrawler.com/downloads/datasheet/dsadc0831.pdf
http://www.crustcrawler.com/downloads/datasheet/gp2d12.pdf
http://www.acroname.com/robotics/info/articles/irlinear/irlinear.html