Posted by Patrick.
Coach on team #409, Flaming Eagles, from Oak Grove High School and NASA Ames Research Center.
Posted on 2/6/2000 1:03 AM MST
We have been testing our operator interface recently, and when we wired a switch to it via one of the ‘ports’
(it was port 3 i belive and it was the rocker switch), and you turn the switch on nothing lights up. I was wondering is anything even supposed to light up on the dashbopard program or the OI?
Posted by Lora Knepper.
Student on team #69, HYPER (Helping Youth Pursue Engineering & Robotics), from Quincy Public Schools and The Gillette Company.
Posted on 2/6/2000 6:14 AM MST
In Reply to: Wiring Switches To the Operator Intrerface posted by Patrick on 2/6/2000 1:03 AM MST:
Not knowing exactly how you wired it up, I can’t really say what’s wrong. Perhaps one of the engineers on here would know better. As for the LED’s…I know that on our OI, when a joystick is moved or a button depressed, the corresponding port light lights up.
Posted by Tony K.
Student on team #292, PantherTech, from Western High School and DaimlerChrysler.
Posted on 2/6/2000 11:05 PM MST
In Reply to: Wiring Switches To the Operator Intrerface posted by Patrick on 2/6/2000 1:03 AM MST:
No nothing should light up. The LED’s only light up for ‘relay 1’ and ‘relay 2’ (which correspond to variables in the program, and can be configured to light up for other variables.)
The Dashboard program only utilizes the bits provided to it by the control program. If you change the ‘feedback leds’ section of the control program to represent another variable for a relay input/output, or whatever the heck you want to, the dashboard program should receive these bits accordingly.
Free plug:
If you download the latest version of my program, PortSnoop 1.3, it let’s you change the labels of the relays, etc to whatever you want to. So if you want the led’s to light up for something else, change the label in the program to associate that with it.