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Re: Cypress Help

No luck. Still doesn't make much since since the accelerometer, mounted button and the touch area all give feedback.

Thanks again for your help.

Austin

Re: Cypress Help

If it's just the digital input that's been burned another possibility to try is to connect the VDDIO pin directly to one of the analog input pins, say P0_0.
That should drive all the analog to maximum.

If that works then you'll have at least 8 inputs you could use with switches.
They'd come in as analog inputs that's all.

Re: Cypress Help

We had a lot of problems with our Cypress and I tracked it down to one of the kids choosing the "web update" that the cypress software wants to do when it starts on our development laptop. Teams - whatever you do, don't update the software via the web!! ALWAYS stick with the official FIRST updates!

If you make this mistake you have two choices. Do a COMPLETE uninstall (including some manual driver deletes in the windows sub-directory) and then re-install. Or find a computer where the FIRST utilities have never been installed, install them (and updates) and then flashing the Cypress from that PC. You can then try attaching it to the driver station.

This might not be your specific problem, but it's based on our experience. Good luck. Stick it out. The Cypress makes a sweet addition to the operator panel. As the mentor on the stage team, I've had several complements on our operator controls. We are using every single DIO port as an input for our operator including several automated operations.

Re: Cypress Help

As Michael said, one of the main problems that new Cypress users run into is installing the wrong version of the Cypress support code.
Updates are NOT good and the DVD that came with the Cypress is NOT good.
Only the FRC version installed with the Driver Station software is correct.
That's not the problem in this case, but it's something to be aware of.

There is an easy way to tell if you have the right version.
If you don't have it then you don't have the correct FRC version of the Cypress support software installed.
Look under

Start->Programs->Cypress->PSoC Programmer 3.12

Start that program and look under Help->About PSoC Programmer

Correct FRC version = 3.12.0.827

Incorrectly updated version = 3.12.4 or higher
Incorrect from the original Cypress DVD = 3.10.0.440