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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Sonar and the 68HC11
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.031605.26279@netcom.com>
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- References: <EfM5_Ya00WBM458UUW@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:16:05 GMT
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- James Ryan Miller <jmce+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > I am curious if anyone has programmed a 6811 to find distances with
- >one of those polaroid sonar things.
- > Here is how I'm envisioning it ... The 6811 could pulse a trigger
- >line which has the transducer xmit a "ping". When the ping was
- >received, it would pulse a line that the 6811 would time, and calculate
- >distance. With the great Input Capture features of the 6811, the
- >software should be easy, but how much circuitry is needed to have these
- >two nice digital lines at the computer to actually driving the
- >transducer.
-
- All you need is a Texas Instruments type SN28827 Sonar Ranging
- Module, which is a board about 1.5" square. The application note
- (D2780, October 1983) explains how to use it. Runs on +5, but you need
- a big external capacitor for filtering, because it draws about an amp
- for a few milliseconds when it "pings". This unit drives the round,
- electrostatic Polaroid transducer. There's a similar unit for the
- rectangular pizeoelectric transducer.
-
- Control is simple; you raise INIT, and it pings; when you get
- an echo, the board returns ECHO. INIT and ECHO can be connected
- directly to the appropriate pins of a 68HC11. Works fine.
-
- I did this back in 1987, and you may have trouble finding the
- modules. But contact TI headquarters in Dallas, and bug them until
- they tell you how to order. Price runs around $30-50 each. TI built
- some vast number of these things for some camera application, and they're
- still around. I've seen them in a surplus catalog, but don't have the
- reference.
-
- I have FORTH code to drive these things, if anyone needs it.
-
- John Nagle
-