trying to gather two readings simultaniously from two sensors. the Serial monitor glitches out and spits out nothing.
sensors both work, baud set, values coming out individually, etc.
suggestions on what i should focus on to get these sensors to both work together?
Post your code. I can't tell anything from from your vague post. You probably know what sensors you have, and how you have them connected, and how you are reading them, but I don't. You might know what 'glitches out and spits out nothing' means, but I don't. I've never seen the serial monitor 'glitch out', and 'spits out nothing' doesn't make sense, unless you can see nulls arriving.
I'm using a max sonar sensor, and a ping sensor.
const int anPin = A5;
int ledPin = 9; // LED connected to digital pin 9
int cmDist;
int ledPin2 = 10;
int ledPin3 = 11;
int fadeValue;
int avRead;
const int pingPin = 7;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600); // nothing happens in setup
pinMode(anPin, INPUT);
}
void loop() {
avRead = analogRead(anPin); //11-25 values
Serial.println(avRead);
//
//delay(10);
// establish variables for duration of the ping,
// and the distance result in inches and centimeters:
long duration, inches, cm;
// The PING))) is triggered by a HIGH pulse of 2 or more microseconds.
// Give a short LOW pulse beforehand to ensure a clean HIGH pulse:
pinMode(pingPin, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(pingPin, LOW);
delayMicroseconds(2);
digitalWrite(pingPin, HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(5);
digitalWrite(pingPin, LOW);
// The same pin is used to read the signal from the PING))): a HIGH
// pulse whose duration is the time (in microseconds) from the sending
// of the ping to the reception of its echo off of an object.
pinMode(pingPin, INPUT);
duration = pulseIn(pingPin, HIGH);
// convert the time into a distance
inches = microsecondsToInches(duration);
cm = microsecondsToCentimeters(duration);
Serial.print(inches);
Serial.print("in, ");
Serial.print(cm);
Serial.print("cm");
Serial.println();
delay(100);
cmDist = cm;
}
long microsecondsToInches(long microseconds)
{
// According to Parallax's datasheet for the PING))), there are
// 73.746 microseconds per inch (i.e. sound travels at 1130 feet per
// second). This gives the distance travelled by the ping, outbound
// and return, so we divide by 2 to get the distance of the obstacle.
// See: http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/acc/28015-PING-v1.3.pdf
return microseconds / 74 / 2;
}
long microsecondsToCentimeters(long microseconds)
{
// The speed of sound is 340 m/s or 29 microseconds per centimeter.
// The ping travels out and back, so to find the distance of the
// object we take half of the distance travelled.
return microseconds / 29 / 2;
if(avRead <=17 && avRead >= 15 ){//thesehold within a range
fadingFunction();
fadingFunction4();
}
if(avRead >= 20 && avRead <=23){
fadingFunction2();
fadingFunction3();
}
}
///these are fading up functions
int fadingFunction(){
int faderUp;
for (fadeValue = 0 ; fadeValue <=255; fadeValue +=5) { //<< need a bracket here
analogWrite(ledPin, fadeValue);
faderUp = fadeValue;
delay(30);
}
}
int fadingFunction2(){
int faderUp2;
for (fadeValue = 0 ; fadeValue <=255; fadeValue +=5) { //<< need a bracket here
analogWrite(ledPin2, fadeValue);
faderUp2 = fadeValue;
delay(30);
}
}
int fadingFunction5(){
int faderUp2;
for (fadeValue = 0 ; fadeValue <=255; fadeValue +=5) { //<< need a bracket here
analogWrite(ledPin3, fadeValue);
faderUp2 = fadeValue;
delay(30);
}
}
///these are fading down functions for the led loop
int fadingFunction3(){
int faderUp3;
for (fadeValue = 255 ; fadeValue >= 0; fadeValue -=5) { //<< need a bracket here
analogWrite(ledPin, fadeValue);
faderUp3 = fadeValue;
delay(10);
}
}
int fadingFunction4(){
int faderUp4;
for (fadeValue = 255 ; fadeValue >= 0; fadeValue -=5) { //<< need a bracket here
analogWrite(ledPin2, fadeValue);
faderUp4 = fadeValue;
delay(10);
}
}
int fadingFunction6(){
int faderUp2;
for (fadeValue = 0 ; fadeValue <=255; fadeValue +=5) { //<< need a bracket here
analogWrite(ledPin3, fadeValue);
faderUp2 = fadeValue;
delay(30);
}
}
What do expect the code after the "return" in microsecondsToCentimeters to do?
( hint: what does a return do?)