Ultrasonic Distance Sensor for Tirnket and Quad Alphanumeric LED Display
Copy and paste the following code into a new sketch in the Arduino IDE. Select the Adafruit Trinket 8MHz in the board section under the Tools menu. Make sure the Programmer section is set to USBTinyISP. Once those are confirmed, plug in the Trinket via USB to your computer and hit upload while the trinket is blinking red.
#include <TinyWireM.h>
//#include <avr/power.h>
#include "Adafruit_LEDBackpack.h"
#include "Adafruit_GFX.h"
#define EZ1pin 1 // Trinket GPIO #1
Adafruit_AlphaNum4 alpha4 = Adafruit_AlphaNum4();
char printMe[3];
String str;
int8_t arraysize = 9; // quantity of values to find the median (sample size). Needs to be an odd number
uint16_t rangevalue[] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
uint16_t modE; // calculated median distance
void setup() {
pinMode(EZ1pin, INPUT); // Sey ultrasonic sensor pin as input
//if (F_CPU == 16000000) clock_prescale_set(clock_div_1);
alpha4.begin(0x70); // pass in the address
alpha4.writeDisplay(); // clear display
}
void loop() {
int16_t pulse; // number of pulses from sensor
int i=0;
while( i < arraysize )
{
pulse = pulseIn(EZ1pin, HIGH); // read in time for pin to transition
rangevalue[i]=pulse/58; // pulses to centimeters (use 147 for inches)
if( rangevalue[i] < 645 && rangevalue[i] >= 15 ) i++; // ensure no values out of range
delay(10); // wait between samples
}
isort(rangevalue,arraysize); // sort samples
modE = mode(rangevalue,arraysize); // get median
str=String(modE);
str.toCharArray(printMe,3);
alpha4.writeDigitAscii(0, printMe[0]);
alpha4.writeDigitAscii(1, printMe[1]);
alpha4.writeDigitAscii(2, 'C'); // write to LCD
alpha4.writeDigitAscii(3, 'M');
alpha4.writeDisplay();
delay(500); // Read every half second
}
// Sorting function (Author: Bill Gentles, Nov. 12, 2010)
void isort(uint16_t *a, int8_t n){
for (int i = 1; i < n; ++i) {
uint16_t j = a[i];
int k;
for (k = i - 1; (k >= 0) && (j < a[k]); k--) {
a[k + 1] = a[k];
}
a[k + 1] = j;
}
}
// Mode function, returning the mode or median.
uint16_t mode(uint16_t *x,int n){
int i = 0;
int count = 0;
int maxCount = 0;
uint16_t mode = 0;
int bimodal;
int prevCount = 0;
while(i<(n-1)){
prevCount=count;
count=0;
while( x[i]==x[i+1] ) {
count++;
i++;
}
if( count > prevCount & count > maxCount) {
mode=x[i];
maxCount=count;
bimodal=0;
}
if( count == 0 ) {
i++;
}
if( count == maxCount ) { //If the dataset has 2 or more modes.
bimodal=1;
}
if( mode==0 || bimodal==1 ) { // Return the median if there is no mode.
mode=x[(n/2)];
}
return mode;
}
}
