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Interfacing to Miltone eTape

« on: August 07, 2011, 03:13:24 am »

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I am looking to gauge some water levels in one of my projects so I got the Miltone eTape from sparkfun: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10221

I am trying to interface to it and am having some troubles, does anyone have any advice or sample code?


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Re: Interfacing to Miltone eTape

« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2011, 04:01:29 am »

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Have you read the appnotes - http://www.parallax.com/Portals/0/Downloads/docs/prod/sens/eTape_AppNotes.pdf

It is in fact a variable resistor so you can build a voltage divider with it and use code similar to - http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput -


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Re: Interfacing to Miltone eTape

« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2012, 06:52:31 am »

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How did it go?

I've just got some eTape to do the same thing.


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Re: Interfacing to Miltone eTape

« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2013, 08:19:05 am »

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StuHooper/Narwhal: I too have an eTape on the way from Sparkfun. Is there anything I should know about or is it relatively straight forward to interface?