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I've exported the component for v7 for you as there wasn't too much to it. Hopefully it should work ok.

Simply copy to your "Flowcode V7\Components\" folder and restart Flowcode.



Let us know how you get on.

If you wanted to convert floats to 4 bytes then you would use the SetFloat function to load in the float and then call the GetByte function four times with indexes 0-3. The icon of the component on the panel should show how the values interrelate. Type.jpg This topic should help if you want to do th...

Hello, It sounds like you are using the standard 7-segment component. This is the one that comes on the combo board and previous E-blocks 1 boards. Instead in your program you need to use the 4-Digit Display Grove component. Comp.jpg If you need an example then let me know and I'll put one together ...

Hello, Sounds like an excellent plan 8) We have some bits here that might be useful. https://www.matrixtsl.com/flowcode/support/ Namely the getting started guide and the intro to microcontrollers programming. There are some E-blocks related examples here too which may be useful. https://www.matrixts...

Hello, Here are the steps you need to do to establish the slave functionality. 1) Initialise the SPI module in slave mode. Look at the various SPI registers and assign values to enable module in slave mode. 2) Enable an SPI interrupt to allow you to see when an SPI slave event has occurred. Look at ...

Hello, Yes this is possible, are you using Flowcode and if so which version are you using. In Flowcode 8 there is a component that will do the conversion for you called type conversions available from the Data component category. For older versions you will have to use a C code icon to acheive the s...

Hello,

Do you want to post the slave code you have so far and we will have a look and try to advise. In v5 you can access the registers by using lower case names in a c-code icon.

for example

Hi Martin, Yes that might be a good way of doing it and would certainly be easier then assembler :D Using assembler I've got much closer but the numbers are still somewhat bizarre. This is now working well at various clock rates but still needs work to build into the UART component. I think I need t...

Hmm investigating further things do seem a bit broken regarding the software UART. Increasing the clock speed is currently making the problem worse. In Pro XC8 anyway. I'll spend some time on this today and see if I can improve things. On inspection it looks like the micro second delay function in X...

Hi Spencer, 8MHz is a bit slow for a software UART to generate reliable output at 9600 baud. Either increase the speed of the MCU or decrease the baud rate or both. Ideally 20MHz or faster. With BoostC used in Flowcode v6 and previous the timings were very predictable and easy to generate software U...

Hello, It sounds possible. I do something similar on the EB2 BL0061 board to program the on-board ST-ARM using it's built in bootloader. If you look at the EB2 datasheet then the schematic for the board is included there. I connect to the chip using SPI and also via UART for backup. The programming ...

Thanks very much and glad you found it useful. Somehow I'm currently on the front page of Instructables as the first project. Time for a screenshot I think :wink: :lol: If anyone is interested and has an Instructables account then I would appreciate a vote, I'm currently entered in a competition the...

Hello,

In the C icon you have added the line of code inside the comments.



Please change to just

Thanks Spencer,

Glad you're up and running again and thanks for letting us know. It certainly can be very frustrating when things suddenly stop working and you're not sure why.

That sounds even more interesting! The cameras sound impressive.

Is that for motion capture or VR type stuff?

Hello, Flowcode v7 and v8 uses a different C compiler to v6 which is known to be better overall but can throw up some issues with tight loops such as the software UART. Please can you try running the chip at 8MHz instead of 4MHz. To do this simply add the following line of code in a C icon at the ve...

Hello Angelo.

Thanks for letting us know. Please try this updated component by copying to your "C:\Program Files (x86)\Flowcode V7\Components" folder.



Hopefully it will solve the problem in v7.

Let us know how you get on.

Great, glad it's working well for you. 5 network cards sounds interesting

Let us know how you're getting on with talking to the board.

Hello, Does the "IR simulation mode" parameter also work with line following sensors or only with distance sensors? For now I have only edited the simulation IR distance sensors and not touched the IR line sensor values. What documents, video or tutorial help you understand how to modify a...

Sorry URL fixed now

Hmm,

I only edited the standard component, didn't have to touch the API version of the component?

Here's the API version atm.

Aha ok thanks.

I tried your program again and the FA component appears as a white square but it does have the new property.

Adding the component again from the menu allows it to work. Hmm odd.

Can you create a new program and does it appear then?

Hello,

Hmm. It seems to be working well for me here. I'll do some checking.

Can you say what you mean by:

I unlocked the file

Do you mean downloaded?

Right I've made the changes you suggested and hopefully this will now do as you want. The default is the standard linear mode but if you change the property to exponential then it should allow you to enter A and B values. I've also added the initial calculations you mentioned but not made these conf...

Hello, The baud rate for DS3231 here should be set to what 100KHz,400KHz or 1MHz for the Ds3231 to work perfectly? If you're not bothered about throughput then the slower you clock the I2C the more reliable and immune to noise it should be so for your application I would go for 100KHz. However readi...