reading ovr how to run this looks simple but what do you do toke this part happen ? "  "

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yup found it Texas advance is the brand...http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/203005/TAOS/TSL201R-LF.html

TEXAS ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC SOLUTIONS - 64 x 1 LINEAR SENSOR ARRAY

pretty sweet..

taos408 second st of number..

tsl201R  first number no name...tho.

yes vary freaky but i think i like them..

found these today .. there cool any one know what they are or have any info i would like to find a data sheet,  and use them with out burning them up on the first try

this is  just to get the g code to talk to the the stepper sence ive been tracking down a way to do this using the arduino and it doest look promising   so beyonfd this set up i want to use my arduino to control my spindel speeds and me encoders for the axis and aventuly get a read out display going with the x y and z cords  so im her cuz i was her first befor i moved on to a cheaper more up to the task stepper controller  and i was under the impression that this was the genaral project  useing arduino section so i could ask for a more experanced persons input on spending the money to get back to play with my arduino side of this project .. due to the lack of luck with driveing big stuff with my arduino i smoked 2 adfruit shilds at one attempt of driveing my project to the next level .. live and learn ...

this is a link to a ebay listing for

3 steppers
3 stepper controler
1 power supply
and a brake out board interfac
this all is vary new to me but i realy want to get some thing going
im not sure what eles on the driveing the motrors side would be missing or if all these items would make a compleat kit for runing mach3 or k cam
ok this is how i under stand it i could be wrond thats why im here
useing the printer port on my pc i run mach3 to the port with the brake out board the board then handles the movments and what needs to go where  . being the brake out board hooks to the stepper modules that hook to the steppers and then wham bang boo g code controling 3 steppers
im hopeing this is right or i might die from the let down but if this is wrong pleas let me know what im missing so i can decide where to go from here thanks !

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sweet  i did use the 5 v of the arduino board .. i have 3 matching encoders 2 i would like to use on motrors when ever i get there and the third sthe wires were cut back to the pins  so im useing that one as a test dummy at the moment ..  sadly i cant aford a scope im just a simple at home spare time maker with no funding mostly work of what people give to me as there junk ..  but thats what i tryed to acomplish with the arduino . useing to get an idea of what was doing what ...  it did cross my mind that AA BB ZZ would be -and+ any idea how to use it those leads as -+ would it be - is reverse or is it i have to apply a ground to those - A B AND Z ?  I did open it up to expose every thing and got in there and used a jewrls magnfier to lool around  there was a lot of lines on the disk with a simple legend stateing this  A---   B--  C-  for the lines in the disk i belive it means that the long traces for the wave form are A and mid being B and im guessing Z=C for the short ones .. and what about the shield drin to the case what is that for noise ? that wire is segrageted it the line up of pin outs i left it disconected not know wheather to ground it to the arduino or not .

well i just got done trying the pin outs for the encoder at 3.3v first then 5v using analog read to check each pin for a Fluctuating value no response had readings from 377 to 1009 and 754 steady  and using digital read i got no further got some that stated high and others that stayed low ? hmm must be doing some thing wrong

ill try to duplicate the sticker pin outs

pin 1 +V        pin3 = A     pin5 = B    pin7 =Z             and 1 blak and white wire it calse drain shiled gos to case as it says
pin 2 com      pin4 = A     pin6 = B    pin8 =Z
does this make sense ?

i came across some cool stuff this week i have a bosh 200mm ball screw in a box slide drveing the ball screw was a 60v dc motor at 3.50 amps on the back was a brake and an optical encoder model Q1/b it has the pin outs on a sticker but i cant find a data  sheet for it ....
the motor seems to be way to high of a voltage for my likeing   "what am i gonna do with 60 volts !")  im thinking about finding a simple set of nema stepper motors and driveing it that way. but in the mean time i would like to try and get the encoder to work with the dc motor i can get it to run on 24v stalls out around 12volts so a simple experiment  with the encoder to get to know it would be try to run a constant speed with the encoder reeding to the arduino mega...now i think i could mange getting a rpm reading out of it with some of the examples in the play ground.. but how could i control such a hight amp and volt motor with out spending a fortune on a driver is there semiconductor or a h bridge that could handle it with a pwm signal ?

hmm i guess i was miss informed about the 3 pwm pins @ code badly  i was readinhg threw the fourms and found some ones post about the third digatal pin and i read that the pb2 pin anlog pin 1 could dubble as a digatal pin with out pwm but i read threw most of this http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,87517.0.html  and could not find how this is done manged it on my own do you have to do some thing to the chip to make it a pwm pin or just program it to do so like normal ?

@fungus i figuer your limataions are end less with the programing and soft ware side of things but that greek to me at this point im begining to under stand what i can in my free time

Im not sure that it did ?  It seemed simple tho ... Due to the fact that i needed 3 pwm pins and only had 2 avabile on the attiny85 theres 3 colors tom send values to there negitve aniodes with transistors if i dident have the extra set of pwm pins to play with i would have had solid red green and blue for colors not the smoth mix of them colors so i just deacated one chip to the ping and one to the leds and doing this another way i dont know if i would have come up with a better sulotion ?  Im not vary good with the programing yet im just fidleing with example code at this point so if you think theres another way to acoplish 3pwm pins to red ,green,blue, and run a ping sensor with real time values. Im all ears buddy " ?     the only fact that i may be over looking on how to change the way i set this up would be can you runn the ping on the anlog pin with out. Pwm and then can the tiny 85 be changed so you would would have 3 pwm pjns instead of just 2 . That would be the only way i can think to fit this all on one chip then the program omg i dont know where to begin running thatg much code togeather .

Oh i need extra pwm pins for color transions using if statements to cordnaite pre programed colors with the reading sent from the attiny handleing the ping sensor a atmel 328 may have been a better choise but thats what i hand

example code for the ping sensor from the sr04 ping device ) i found a better example im not sure where its from or who to thank it was on a google page  but threw trial and eror this is what was able modified to my needs seems to be working ok with out the pwm pin im assuming it will just have a slower response time on the ping

Code:

/*
 HC-SR04 Ping distance sensor]
 VCC to arduino 5v GND to arduino GND
 Echo to Arduino pin 13 Trig to Arduino pin 12
 More info at: http://goo.gl/kJ8Gl
 */
#define trigPin PB2 // changed these to match pins that the attiny 85 has
#define echoPin PB1

int rpm = PB0; // pwm pin out to transistor to control motor and colors
int Val; //  used to map value to 255
void setup() {

  pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(echoPin, INPUT);
  pinMode(rpm, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  long duration, distance;
  digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);  // Added this line
  delayMicroseconds(2); // Added this line

  digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH);
  //  delayMicroseconds(1000); - Removed this line
 
  delayMicroseconds(10); // Added this line
 
  digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
 
  duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
  distance = (duration/2) / 29.1;
 
 
 
  if (distance >= 65 || distance <= 0){

    analogWrite(rpm, 0); // stop all motion and colors on leds result hall way night light dose not keep me a wake with flash
                                 // in till it see me in range used a ping sensor as a motion detector in short
  }
  else {


     analogWrite(5,distance/4);
     
     Val = map(distance, 65, 1, 0, 80);
     analogWrite(rpm, Val);
     
     
   
  }
 
 
 
 
 
  delay(1);
}