Sensor Shiled V4 with Uno32 and serial commands

Created Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:16:37 +0000 by stratmaster458

stratmaster458

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:16:37 +0000

Hey will the Arduino sensor shield v4 work with the chipkit uno32 pinout? I really need an easy cheap way to connect 3 or more servos to my UNO32 and drive them.

This is going to be used to drive a mechanical gripper that will be attached to the end of a Fanuc 6 DOF robotic arm for my industrial robotics course.

The UNO32 will be receive commands over serial from NI Labview will this be easy to do? As far as I know I would just have to send data down a com port from labview and have the UNO32 ready to receive it.

Jacob Christ

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:01:41 +0000

Yes, its easy. But if you haven't done it before expect to spend 4-40 hours (or more) to get it to work.

Jacob

stratmaster458

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:06:29 +0000

Yes, its easy. But if you haven't done it before expect to spend 4-40 hours (or more) to get it to work. Jacob

So you are saying the serial commnication from the com port from labview to the UNO will work?

What about the sensor shield?

Jacob Christ

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:36:21 +0000

I'm saying that I think your plan is sound and easy, just time consuming if you have never done it before.

I don't know anything about the sensor shield. We we can control servos from an Uno using serial commands and I know of people that send data out a serial port from Labview.

Jacob

stratmaster458

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:37:44 +0000

I'm saying that I think your plan is sound and easy, just time consuming if you have never done it before. I don't know anything about the sensor shield. We we can control servos from an Uno using serial commands and I know of people that send data out a serial port from Labview. Jacob

Well I have a solid background in high level programming as well as embedded system programming so I don't think its gonna be too hard , from what I can tell Labview is a fairly trivial program to use.

What really need to know is there an off the shelf shield that I can use to connect and control servo's with the UNO32 using the standard servo library found here: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Servo

If I cannot find a shield I will just make one in EAGLE / Altium and have it made.