Interfacing a digital compass with the RC

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Interfacing a digital compass with the RC

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23-05-2007, 17:55

Qbranch

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Re: Interfacing a digital compass with the RC

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

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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