Thread: Interfacing a digital compass with the RC
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Unread 23-05-2007, 17:55
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Re: Interfacing a digital compass with the RC
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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday View Post
As for reading the PWM input, sometimes you can take the PWM output and run it through a simple RC circuit to convert it to an analog value that you could read directly with the RC.
Give me a pwm signal, a timer (internal peripheral) and an external interrupt (portb) and i'll time you a pulse...

Have had to do this this year and in the past for getting distance data out of an ultrasonic sensor...

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