Ok, I will put this in the most basic terms I can. I am not good at this whole programming thing, Im not much of a computer person. I am a glass artist. I am currently working on a project in which the glass self destructs because of stress introduced in the form of the viewer getting closer to the piece. In essence I want to use an Arduino, I bought the 16hz beginner uno kit, a ultra sonic proximity sensor, and a motor shield. I want to use the proximity sensor to sense when a viewer gets close to the piece, and depending on how close they are, make the motor run faster. for example, lets use 6 foot as the start point, so at 6 ft the motor would start to run, slowly. at 5 foot it would get faster and keep going along those lines. So at 1 foot the motor is running at full speed. Can anyone help and give me some guidance on how to make this work?
First, please give the part number and or link for the proximity sensor and a link to the motor driver shield. There are lots of different proximity sensors and motor driver shields and they don't all work the same. Proximity sensors do not necessarily return a range, often just a digital signal when objects are in the sensors sensitive field.
Motor Drive L293d. Proximity Sensor HC-SR04.
http://yourduino.com/sunshop2/index.php?l=product_detail&p=292
Have you gotten the range finder and/or motor to work individually? motor driver tutorial is a pretty complete tutorial on using that motor shield once you get past the building of the shield. The tutorial will point you to a library for the motor shield's use and show how to install a library. There is the Ping library Ping library for interfacing with the HC04. There are examples with the library to show its use.