Raw Serial IO [SOLVED]

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• JonnyMac Posts: 8,923

  2020-01-09 00:41 edited 2020-01-09 00:45

  After an exchange with Andy Lindsay (thanks, Andy!), I was able to sort out how to configure the serial transmit block as required. Good news: I am able to communicate with the Pixy2 with Blockly. Here's a bit of a preview for those who want to compare the Pixy2 API
  
  https://docs.pixycam.com/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:v2:porting_guide
  
  ...to my BlocklyProp code.
  
  Here's how we ask the Pixy2 for its version information.
  
  
  
  After any request, we can get the variable-length response with this code. Blockly doesn't have a lot of serial tools, and receiving blocks the program (so check your wires). Luckily, the Pixy2 header contains the number of bytes that come after the header, so we can use that information to determine how many bytes to wait for.
  
  
  
  Once we've made a request and received the response, we can pull data from the packet.
  
  
  
  Many of the values returned are 16 bits, so we need a little function to extract and build those values.
  
  
  
  Keep in mind that his is early code and will likely see many changes.

  

  

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• JonnyMac Posts: 8,923

  2020-01-10 21:22

  For anyone interested in playing with the Pixy2, my project can be found here:
  -- http://blockly.parallax.com/blockly/projectlink?id=125427&key=aa367b94-ef76-41e0-9f4c-b497523cc406
• Publison Posts: 12,366

  2020-01-10 21:55

  Very cool Jon. Pixy2 looks like it could do some great Propeller robot inputs.
• JonnyMac Posts: 8,923

  2020-01-10 23:33

  Could be neat. I finished a Spin object for it today and sent it to Ken for testing. Going to attempt to translate that the C (SimpleIDE) so that Parallax customers will have their choice of language.