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I need some help/guidance with the StampWorks kit.
Something is wrong and I'm not sure what it is, but I don't
think I should be having so much trouble running a problem
from the CD and having a 'single wire' circuit on the board.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Before I start, the board is on and plugged in, and
the green 'on' LED is lit. Also I'm not sure if its important
but the 1 Hz LED in the pulse generator section is also lit.
I have no wiring on the board except the one connecting the
positive and negative rails (not to each other) as specified
in the book diagram.
Here are the frustrated results of my experiments:
The CLEAR.BS2 works fine, and I run it after changing
even a single wire on the board.
I get the same experiment results even if I run the CLEAR
program between experiment 2 and 2b, even though the
circuit has NOT changed.
Stampworks Experiment 1:
Appears to work fine, the LED 0 blinks twice.
Stampworks Experiment 2:
Same result as Exp. 1
Appears to work fine, the LED 0 blinks twice.
(Here's where the problems start)
Stampworks Experiment 2B:
Running the code from the CD which is similar
to the exp. 2 but it uses a cntr variable.
Absolutely nothing happens. LED 0 doenst blink at all.
I tried adding a line into the initialization section
and set cntr = On. If I do that then the LED 0 goes
back to blinking twice, just like Exp. 1 and 2.
Stampworks Experiment 3:
Okay now I have 8 wires on the board
(aside from the Vdd and Vss rails.)
pin 0 to LED 0, pin 1 to LED 1, etc.
When I run the code LEDCNTR.BS2, the 0 LED blinks, then 1 LED blinks,
then they both go blank, and the 0 LED blinks again, and then nothing
else happens.
One other thing.
Using the Earth Measurements .pdf I downloaded,
I tried Earth Measurements Experiment 1, with successful results.
It uses a piezo transducer, a DS1620, a 1k ohm resistor, and a .1 uF
capacitor
Something is wrong and I'm not sure what it is, but I don't
think I should be having so much trouble running a problem
from the CD and having a 'single wire' circuit on the board.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Before I start, the board is on and plugged in, and
the green 'on' LED is lit. Also I'm not sure if its important
but the 1 Hz LED in the pulse generator section is also lit.
I have no wiring on the board except the one connecting the
positive and negative rails (not to each other) as specified
in the book diagram.
Here are the frustrated results of my experiments:
The CLEAR.BS2 works fine, and I run it after changing
even a single wire on the board.
I get the same experiment results even if I run the CLEAR
program between experiment 2 and 2b, even though the
circuit has NOT changed.
Stampworks Experiment 1:
Appears to work fine, the LED 0 blinks twice.
Stampworks Experiment 2:
Same result as Exp. 1
Appears to work fine, the LED 0 blinks twice.
(Here's where the problems start)
Stampworks Experiment 2B:
Running the code from the CD which is similar
to the exp. 2 but it uses a cntr variable.
Absolutely nothing happens. LED 0 doenst blink at all.
I tried adding a line into the initialization section
and set cntr = On. If I do that then the LED 0 goes
back to blinking twice, just like Exp. 1 and 2.
Stampworks Experiment 3:
Okay now I have 8 wires on the board
(aside from the Vdd and Vss rails.)
pin 0 to LED 0, pin 1 to LED 1, etc.
When I run the code LEDCNTR.BS2, the 0 LED blinks, then 1 LED blinks,
then they both go blank, and the 0 LED blinks again, and then nothing
else happens.
One other thing.
Using the Earth Measurements .pdf I downloaded,
I tried Earth Measurements Experiment 1, with successful results.
It uses a piezo transducer, a DS1620, a 1k ohm resistor, and a .1 uF
capacitor