This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Working on controlling the SSC32 from the Raspberry Pi
In light of the problems that I was having with reading the SSC32 pwm values from the Arduino, I thought that I might try and do the same via a serial interface to the RPi. That is where I ran into difficulty, mostly because I was rather busy this weekend with other things. I am trying to set up a serial terminal to communicate via a USB to RS232 interface cable to the SSC32 servo controller. I first tried Screen but couldn't figure out how to get it to work, then I tried minicom. I guess that I am just going to have to read up on these two programs in order to figure out the baud rate settings and commands. I will probably try to do the same types of commands via a connection to my laptop. But, I want to get it working on the RPi so that I can at least say it is part of the solution. Remember, controlling the SSC32 and Mini-Maestro to move servos was not a problem, finding out the current pwm for a given servo was.
