Pulse Width

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I am using your Basic Stamp II for my Senior project. I need a way to
measure Pulse width for some Temperate sensors. Is there way to program the
software to time the how long a pulse is at a specific logic level? IE. A
TTL signal at +5v and 0v

I need to time these levels so that I can convert the Serial digital signal
from the Temperature sensors to number data for comparison.

Thanks!!!!

Tobin Moore

DeVry Institute of Technology
Columbus Ohio

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Look at the pulsin command. See page 289 of the manual (page 291 of the
pdf). The manual is available under Downloads on the Parallax web site.
Here is a link for the manual.

http://64.27.84.239/downloads/Documentation/Basic%20Stamps/BASIC%20Stamp%20Manua\
l%20v1.9.pdf

Michael

>
>
> I am using your Basic Stamp II for my Senior project. I need a way to
> measure Pulse width for some Temperate sensors. Is there way to program the
> software to time the how long a pulse is at a specific logic level? IE. A
> TTL signal at +5v and 0v
>
> I need to time these levels so that I can convert the Serial digital signal
> from the Temperature sensors to number data for comparison.
>
> Thanks!!!!
>
> Tobin Moore
>
> DeVry Institute of Technology
> Columbus Ohio
>
>
>
>

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Here's the deal:
I'm want to control my robot with a Nintendo 64 video game
controller. The way the controller works is that it gives out certain
pulses depending of a 0 or 1. For instance, 3 microseconds low and 1
microseconds high is a 0 and the other way around for a 1. I wanted
to use a basic stamp 1 on the robot but i was reading the manual and
it says that the pulsin command only gives the length of pulse widths
in steps of 10 microseconds. That is way to long. I don't want to
spend the extra money for a different version of basic stamp. Does
anyone have any ideas to how i can interperet the information coming
out of the controller? or and cheap extra hardware that i could add
on?

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In a message dated 11/03/2002 19:49:23 Eastern Standard Time,
Duncanla@c... writes:


> Here's the deal:
> I'm want to control my robot with a Nintendo 64 video game
> controller. The way the controller works is that it gives out certain
> pulses depending of a 0 or 1. For instance, 3 microseconds low and 1
> microseconds high is a 0 and the other way around for a 1. I wanted
> to use a basic stamp 1 on the robot but i was reading the manual and
> it says that the pulsin command only gives the length of pulse widths
> in steps of 10 microseconds. That is way to long. I don't want to
> spend the extra money for a different version of basic stamp. Does
> anyone have any ideas to how i can interperet the information coming
> out of the controller? or and cheap extra hardware that i could add
> on?
>
>

For Duncan

Have you thought about using a Sony TV Remote. They are not very expensive
and I could help you with the code. I don't know anything about the Nintendo
but I assume it is not IR.
Sid Weaver
W4EKQ
Port Richey, FL


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--- In basicstamps@y..., "duncanla22" <Duncanla@c...> wrote:
> Here's the deal:
> I'm want to control my robot with a Nintendo 64 video game
> controller. The way the controller works is that it gives out
certain
> pulses depending of a 0 or 1. For instance, 3 microseconds low and
1
> microseconds high is a 0 and the other way around for a 1. I wanted
> to use a basic stamp 1 on the robot but i was reading the manual
and
> it says that the pulsin command only gives the length of pulse
widths
> in steps of 10 microseconds. That is way to long. I don't want to
> spend the extra money for a different version of basic stamp. Does
> anyone have any ideas to how i can interperet the information
coming
> out of the controller? or and cheap extra hardware that i could add
> on?

By the way, if you want to know more about the Nintendo 64 controller
you can find how it works here: http://www.st-hans.de/N64.htm