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Hello Everyone. I am using Noah Stahls code to attempt to take data from a long range ir distance and spit it out as a midi cc. I have searched forums, interwebs, etc, and nothing. I have tried various approaches, but figured I would just post the below code as its the basic beginnings so I can see where I am going wrong even at the start....

Noah's code (in its original rendition) is spitting out data perfectly in inches (which come close enough to 0-127)
And I have successfully run the midi example to make sure im outputting properly out of tx-1 and through the midi interface.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, but please beware you are dealing with an absolute beginner!

Thanks team

James

Code:

//  Noah Stahl
//  5/25/2011
//  http://arduinomega.blogspot.com
//  Arduino Mega 2560
//This sketch is used to test the Sharp Long Range Infrared Sensor.
//The sensor output is attached to analog pin 15. Once the distance
//is calculated, it is printed out to the serial monitor.

#define sensorIR 1               //Must be an analog pin
float sensorValue, inches, cm;    //Must be of type float for pow()

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(31250);
 
}

void loop() {
  sensorValue = analogRead(sensorIR);
  inches = 4192.936 * pow(sensorValue,-0.935) - 3.937;
  //cm = 10650.08 * pow(sensorValue,-0.935) - 10;
  delay(100);
 
  Serial.print(0xb0);
  Serial.print("inches: ");
  Serial.print(127);
}

[Reply #1 on:]

Serial.print(0xb0);
  Serial.print("inches: ");
  Serial.print(127);

Printing strings to a MIDI output is going to screw you up.
Using Serial.print is going to screw you up.
Use

Code:

Serial.write(0xb0); // CC message for channel 1
  Serial.write(0x5); // or what ever CC number you want to write to
  Serial.write(inches & 0x7f); // keep the inches from going over 127
 

[Reply #2 on:]

Wow cheers for your quick reply.

I tried this, but it has compiling errors, does this look right to you?

Code:

//  Noah Stahl
//  5/25/2011
//  http://arduinomega.blogspot.com
//  Arduino Mega 2560
//This sketch is used to test the Sharp Long Range Infrared Sensor.
//The sensor output is attached to analog pin 15. Once the distance
//is calculated, it is printed out to the serial monitor.

#define sensorIR 1               //Must be an analog pin
float sensorValue, inches, cm;    //Must be of type float for pow()

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(31250);
 
}

void loop() {
  sensorValue = analogRead(sensorIR);
  inches = 4192.936 * pow(sensorValue,-0.935) - 3.937;
  //cm = 10650.08 * pow(sensorValue,-0.935) - 10;
  delay(100);
 
Serial.write(0xb0); // CC message for channel 1
  Serial.write(0x5); // or what ever CC number you want to write to
  Serial.write(inches & 0x7f); // keep the inches from going over 127
}

Errors:

sketch_may01a.cpp: In function 'void loop()':
sketch_may01a:24: error: invalid operands of types 'float' and 'int' to binary 'operator&'

Cheers!

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Change that last line to:-

Code:

Serial.write(int(inches) & 0x7f); // keep the inches from going over 127

[Reply #4 on:]

Thats brilliant thank you so much. Worked a treat!