I am here to ask you how i can get this code (below) to work with xbee’s. Right now I am sending too much data to the receiving xbee and it is reading in a lot of unnecessary data because of that. I want to have a way so that i can send data from one potentiometer for thrust, and separate ones for movement, but have the receiving arduino read them all separately. At the moment i only have an LED on the receiving end to simulate the thrust power of a motor, but i don’t know how to make it so that only the one linear potentiometer affects the led, not every ASCII thing sent to it, right now the led flashes every second and is not fading smoothly as the linear pot goes up. thanks for your help.
CODE
//this is for the two analog potentiometers and the linear pot for the quadcopter.
int Pot1a = A0;//x right //see paper diagram
int Pot1b = A1;//y right
int Pot2a = A2;//x left
int Pot2b = A3;//y left
int LinePot = A4;//Thrust
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
int Horizontal_Joy_Right = analogRead(Pot1a);
int Vertical_Joy_Right = analogRead(Pot1b);
int Horizontal_Joy_Left = analogRead(Pot2a);
int Vertical_Joy_Left = analogRead(Pot2b);
int Linear_Pot = analogRead(LinePot);
PrintVal(Linear_Pot, Horizontal_Joy_Right, Vertical_Joy_Right, Horizontal_Joy_Left, Vertical_Joy_Left);
Linear(Linear_Pot);
}
/////////PRINT VALUES
void PrintVal(int Linear_Pot, int Horizontal_Joy_Right, int Vertical_Joy_Right, int Horizontal_Joy_Left, int Vertical_Joy_Left) {
//PRINTING RIGHT JOYSTICK VALUES
Serial.println(“RIGHT JOYSTICK”);
Serial.print("Horizontal value: “);
Serial.print(Horizontal_Joy_Right);
Serial.print(” ");
Serial.print("Vertical Value: “);
Serial.print(Vertical_Joy_Right);
Serial.println(” ");
//PRINTING LEFT JOYSTICK VALUES
Serial.println(“LEFT JOYSTICK”);
Serial.print("Horizontal value: “);
Serial.print(Horizontal_Joy_Left);
Serial.print(” ");
Serial.print("Vertical Value: “);
Serial.print(Vertical_Joy_Left);
Serial.println(” ");
Serial.println(“LINEAR POT”);
Serial.print("Thrust Value: “);
Serial.print(Linear_Pot);
Serial.println(” ");
delay(1000);
}
///////////LINEAR POTENTIOMETER
void Linear(int Linear_Pot) {
Serial.write(Linear_Pot / 4);
delay(1);
}
HERE IS THE CODE FOR THE RECEIVING XBEE:
//XBEE RECIEVER CODE 2016
const int ledPin = 11; // the pin that the LED is attached to
int PotData; // a variable to read incoming serial data into
void setup() {
// initialize serial communication:
Serial.begin(9600);
// initialize the LED pin as an output:
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
if (Serial.available() > 0)
{
PotData = Serial.read();
int brightness = PotData;
analogWrite(ledPin, brightness);
}
}