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2017-07-14 at 4:41 PM
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The red cable from the MaxTemp goes to pin 1 on the MaxSonar. The shield (yellow) and black cables from the MaxTemp both go to pin 7 on the MaxSonar. Pin 7 on the MaxSonar is also connected to groun
The red cable from the MaxTemp goes to pin 1 on the MaxSonar. The shield (yellow) and black cables from the MaxTemp both go to pin 7 on the MaxSonar. Pin 7 on the MaxSonar is also connected to ground (black) from the grove, so you’ll be shoving three wires into the MaxSonar screw terminal at Pin 7. Pin 6 on the MaxSonar goes to Vcc (red on the grove). Pin 5 on the MaxSonar goes to D2/white on the grove, if you want to use pin 5 on the Mayfly to receive data.
In your data sketch, you then need to set up an instance of SoftwareSerial with the Rx set as pin 5. Then you want to use the parseInt() function to capture the data from the MaxSonar. (But throw away the first 6 lines from the MaxSonar after power-up, because it sends out a header before sending out data.) There’s an example sketch here: https://github.com/EnviroDIY/EnviroDIY_Mayfly_Logger/blob/master/examples/mayfly_sonar/mayfly_sonar.ino
You can also use the ModularSensors library (https://github.com/EnviroDIY/ModularSensors) with the MaxSonar, if you’d prefer.
