{"id":397,"date":"2009-09-21T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2009-09-21T21:32:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T03:32:57","slug":"phys-comp-week-2-analog-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/phys-comp-week-2-analog-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"Phys Comp: Week 2 – Analog sensors, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we worked with analog sensors.<\/p>\n

For the lab, I was able to correctly set up the breadboard, Arduino, and potentiometer to create my first analog input. I documented along the way.<\/p>\n

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Then I made a two-input analog switch with two LEDs as output. Here’s the code:<\/p>\n

int ledPinGreen = 10; \/\/ Green pin
\nint ledPinRed = 9; \/\/ Red pin<\/p>\n

int analogFSRLeft = 0; \/\/ Left analog input
\nint analogFSRRight = 1; \/\/ Right analog input<\/p>\n

int FSRValueLeft = 1; \/\/ Value of the left FSR
\nint FSRValueRight = 1; \/\/ Value of the right FSR<\/p>\n

void setup() {
\n\/\/ initialize serial communications at 9600 bps:
\nSerial.begin(9600);
\n}
\nvoid loop() {
\nFSRValueLeft = analogRead(analogFSRLeft); \/\/ read the left FSR value
\nanalogWrite(ledPinGreen, FSRValueLeft\/4);
\nSerial.println(FSRValueLeft); \/\/ print the FSR value back to the<\/p>\n

FSRValueRight = analogRead(analogFSRRight); \/\/ read the right FSR value
\nanalogWrite(ledPinRed, FSRValueRight\/4);
\nSerial.println(FSRValueRight);<\/p>\n

delay(10); \/\/ gives a 10 millisecond delay
\n}<\/p>\n

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This week we worked with analog sensors. For the lab, I was able to correctly set up the breadboard, Arduino, and potentiometer to create my first analog input. I documented along the way. Then I made a two-input analog switch with two LEDs as output. Here’s the code: int ledPinGreen = 10; \/\/ Green pin … Continue reading “Phys Comp: Week 2 – Analog sensors, Part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1,77,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}