cursul nu l-am terminat deoarece și-a atins scopul. în plus, pentru cei interesați de preluarea suportului și folosirea lui pentru educație (și aici mă refer la personalul didactic) pot pune la dispoziție în schimbul unei adrese de email, documentul în format editabil (Open Office Impress).

i’ve roamed the internet for a while to find myself some Arduino libraries to access the sensors but failed to find what i wanted. so here’s what i came up with MPL115A1 Arduino library, SHT15 Arduino library and TSL230R Arduino library. the code is provided “as-is” and the work is based on roaming drone’s TSL230R tutorial, jim lindblom’s sparkfun MPL115A1 example code and nathan seidle’s sparkfun SHT15 example code.

tomorrow i’ll update this post with an example code and some wiring diagrams.

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ask whatever questions here, and i will answer.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include "serial.h"
// the number of lines read from the serial interface.
// good for data acquisition for a specified amount of time.
#define MAXLINES 10

int main (int argc, int ** argv) {
    HANDLE comPort;
    FILE * f;
    char buffer[32];
    unsigned short int readbits = 0;
    unsigned long int lines = 0;
    unsigned short int c;

    // my COM port is COM15. be sure to change it accordingly
    if ((comPort = openSerialConsole("\\\\.\\COM15")) == (void *) NULL) {
        printf ("Error: COM Port!\n");
        return 1;
        }

    // open the file "text.txt". change it for a different file
    f = fopen ("test.txt", "w+");

    // read online MAXLINES lines
    while (lines < MAXLINES) {
        // readbits is the number of bytes read from the COM port
        while ((readbits = readFromSerialConsole(comPort, buffer, 32)) != 0) {
            // a good thing to check that the readbits+1 character marks the end
            // of the string. saves you from "Segmentation fault!" errors
            buffer[readbits] = 0;

            // check buffer for ENDL character
            for (c = 0; c<readbits; c++)
                if (buffer[c] == '\n') {
                    lines++;
                    if (lines == MAXLINES) buffer[c] = 0;
                    }

            // output to the standard IO, and
            printf("%s", buffer);
            // to the file
            fprintf(f, "%s", buffer);
            }
        }

    // close the file handle
    fclose (f);

    // close the COM port
    closeSerialConsole(comPort);

    return 0;
    }

HANDLE openSerialConsole (LPCSTR p) {
// LPCSTR p is a string containing the name of the device
// in Windows namespace, the safest way to access the COM ports
// is to use the \\.\COMxx syntax. remember, p is a string
// and \ escapes characters so p should really be "\\\\.\\COMxx"
    HANDLE h;
    DCB params = {0};
    COMMTIMEOUTS timeouts = {0};

    h = CreateFile ( p,
        GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, // the way we want to interact with the COM port
        0, // not the wisest way to open the device as it takes exclusive control over
        NULL, // no security attributes, meaning no child process access
        OPEN_EXISTING, // only if we have a COM port
        0, // some things i didn't understood completely
        NULL);
    if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
        printf("Error: Could not create handle!\n");
        return (void *) NULL;
        }

    params.DCBlength = sizeof(params);
    if (!GetCommState(h, &params)) {
        printf("Error: Setting COM State!\n");
        CloseHandle (h);
        return (void *) NULL;
        }

    // 9600 bauds, with a 8N1 format
    params.BaudRate=CBR_9600;
    params.ByteSize=8;
    params.Parity=NOPARITY;
    params.StopBits=ONESTOPBIT;
    if (!SetCommState(h, &params)) {
        printf("Error: Setting BAUD!\n");
        CloseHandle (h);
        return (void *) NULL;
        }

    // timeouts, avoid hanging
    timeouts.ReadIntervalTimeout=50;
    timeouts.ReadTotalTimeoutConstant=50;
    timeouts.ReadTotalTimeoutMultiplier=10;
    timeouts.WriteTotalTimeoutConstant=50;
    timeouts.WriteTotalTimeoutMultiplier=10;
    if (!SetCommTimeouts(h, &timeouts)) {
        printf("Error: Setting timeouts!\n");
        CloseHandle (h);
        return (void *) NULL;
        }

    return h;
    }

unsigned long int readFromSerialConsole ( HANDLE h, char * buffer, int size ) {
    unsigned long int bytes = 0;
    COMSTAT status;
    unsigned long int errors;

    ClearCommError (h, &errors, &status);

    if (status.cbInQue > 0) {
        size = status.cbInQue > size ? size : status.cbInQue;
        if (ReadFile(h, buffer, size, &bytes, NULL) && bytes != 0)
            return bytes;
        }
    return bytes;
    }

unsigned long int writeToSerialConsole(HANDLE h, char * buffer, int size) {
    unsigned long int bytes = 0;
    if (!WriteFile(h, buffer, size, &bytes, NULL));
    return bytes;
    }

void closeSerialConsole (HANDLE h) {
    CloseHandle (h);
    }

i know there are other ways, but i chose mingw combined with my favorite windows editor, notepad++.

here are the steps to install and make them play well together:

1. download mingw from here (no worries, this is the source-forge link). this is an automated installer and just click “next”, “next”, “next”… be careful to choose whichever compiler you need (there are plenty to choose from);

2. adjust the windows “path”. open the “Advanced Systems Settings” (on Vista and Win7) or just right-click the My Computer and choose properties. choose the “Advanced” tab, and the last button on the tab is “Environment Variables”. Click it and you’ll get a “User variables for username” where you need to edit the “PATH” variable adding “;C:\MinGW\bin” where this is the path to the “bin” directory from the MinGW install. if you’re not the only user who uses this, you should also edit the “System Variables” “Path”. If the variable is missing, create it and fill it in with “C:\MinGW\bin” only (don’t forget to put the real path in here).

3. close everything with “ok” and “apply” if needed. open notepad++ and be sure that you have the NppExec plugin installed (under the “Plugins” menu item). if not, just choose “Plugin Manager” from the same menu, then “Show Plugin Manager” and check the “NppExec” plugin followed by “Install” (needless to say you need internet connection to do so).

4. NppExec being installed, write a small program in notepad++, press the “F6″ key and in the small window there copy/paste the following code:

cd $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)
gcc -o $(NAME_PART).exe $(FILE_NAME)
$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\$(NAME_PART).exe

save it with a nice name. then just click “Ok”. you should see the console compiling and running the small program. you’re done!

possible errors: try to keep clean the names for any files or folders involved in your project. avoid spaces and punctuation. for example, i’m using “D:\Projects\MyProjectName\MyProjectName.c” and it works fine!