Progress: This post is in the wake of a minor setback, I was unable to figure out how to use the previous range finder after spending a week poking and prodding it with various settings. So I started my fallback plan and ordered another range finder off of sparkfun, this one goes up to about 6 feet which is decent for showing the application of the EoS. It should arrive Thursday so I’m hoping I’ll have it before class.
Problems: The biggest issue over the past 3 weeks was trying to decipher the cryptic range finder module I originally got. I’m receiving some sort of data from it but I could not figure out what it was/meant and it made minimal to no sense to me. I would get a value of 0 when measuring distance no matter what setting I’d use and I switched up to about every setting under the sun.
Plans: My plan for this week is to solder the arduino to the OLED screen and get that reading correct numbers. Then if I have the range finder I’d like to also solder that to the arduino and get the code written down. Lastly I will figure out my power needs and order the battery and the charger circuit, which when that all arrives I’ll be able to start creating some models of the casing I need since this new range finder is a different shape and size than the old one.