Eddie Robot - Getting Distance in cm from PING Sensors

cch80

Hi,

Let say when I issued a PING command, I got a hex value of 133.
How do I convert this value to distance in centimeters (cm)?

I'm using PING Ultrasonic Distance Sensor (#28015) on my Eddie Robot Platform.

Thanks!

Regards,
Roland.

Franklin

Take a look at the sample code on the ping page in the store there are examples and references there.

dgately

cch80 wrote: »

Hi,

Let say when I issued a PING command, I got a hex value of 133.
How do I convert this value to distance in centimeters (cm)?

The description of each function of the "Ping))) Object V1.2 " @: http://obex.parallax.com/objects/114/ is noted below. The basic returned value is microsecond "ticks". Inches, Millimeters and Centimeters are returned as just conversions from the ticks value...

Here are the function descriptions for the Ping.spin object. Just use the "Millimeters(Pin)" method/function:

PUB Ticks(Pin) : Microseconds | cnt1, cnt2
''Return Ping)))'s one-way ultrasonic travel time in microseconds


PUB Inches(Pin) : Distance
''Measure object distance in inches
                                                                             
PUB Centimeters(Pin) : Distance                                                  
''Measure object distance in centimeters
                                                                       
PUB Millimeters(Pin) : Distance                                                  
''Measure object distance in millimeters

dgately