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Former Member over 14 years ago

I am trying to read the pwm signal from a digital encoder I got out of a mouse should I use PulseIn or analogRead. Please let me know the best way to do this. Thanks.

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    chgus over 14 years ago

    My money would be om pulseIn(), but you might need to monitor more than one pin to determine direction. See for example DASF006380.pdf

     

    I would probably not use pulseIn either. You need to count state changes, so busy monitoring or attachInterrupt() would match better.

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    chgus over 14 years ago

    My money would be om pulseIn(), but you might need to monitor more than one pin to determine direction. See for example DASF006380.pdf

     

    I would probably not use pulseIn either. You need to count state changes, so busy monitoring or attachInterrupt() would match better.

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to chgus

    It is only one direction and in not farmiliar withattachInterrupt() could you please explain or is it in the .pdf?

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    chgus over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    // pin change interrupt example
    // attach wheel input on digital pin 2
    // not all pin's are able to interrupt on change, check documentation
    // these are for Arduino UNO
    #define interruptPin2 0
    #define interruptPin3 1
    volatile int wheelPos = 0;
    void setup()
    {
      Serial.begin(9600);
      attachInterrupt(interruptPin2,moved,CHANGE);
    }
    void loop()
    {
      Serial.print("Wheel position: ");
      Serial.println(wheelPos,DEC);
      // do other stuff
      delay(1000);
    }
    // everytime the wheel pin changes we call this function
    void moved()
    {
      // do simple and quick operations within the interrupt call
      wheelPos++;
    }

    The pdf was just a random example - i have no idea what component you are using

    This is how i would hook up the wheel decoder to test it:

     

    // pin change interrupt example

    // attach wheel input on digital pin 2

     

    // not all pin's are able to interrupt on change, check documentation

    // these are for Arduino UNO

    #define interruptPin2 0

    #define interruptPin3 1

     

    volatile int wheelPos = 0;

     

    void setup()

    {

      Serial.begin(9600);

      attachInterrupt(interruptPin2,moved,CHANGE);

    }

     

    void loop()

    {

      Serial.print("Wheel position: ");

      Serial.println(wheelPos,DEC);

      // do other stuff

      delay(1000);

    }

     

    // everytime the wheel pin changes we call this function

    void moved()

    {

      // do simple and quick operations within the interrupt call

      wheelPos++;

    }

     

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to chgus

    Thanks ill give this a try!

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to chgus

    Hi Christer, remember me from STK?

     

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