Hi everyone,
I am working on a robot costume for a Halloween party this weekend and looking to work a Cortex and some VEX LEDs into it.
Anyone available to throw some code together for me, in either easyC or ROBOTC, that can randomly fire off all 12 dig/analog ports? It would just be straight auton code. But extra points to someone who can do some fancy handy work like some simple patterns, especially working in a bumper switch to switch between patterns.
Thanks guys!
How about adding a gyro and accelerometer. That way you can have the leds write a message as you move using persist… of vision
Ha Chris! Not trying to be that ambitious. Only have until Saturday night. And given my duties at VEX with us being back in full swing, I have had little time to dig into it myself. Was hoping some of our VEX programming gurus could help me out.
I already have a pretty cool flat display on the front that lights up more or less bars given surrounding wifi signals. But looking for a little extra wow factor.
Lol
Just go as self then
Sean
Here is some (unfinished) code I threw together for you. Switch detection logic not tested, may have it backwards as its in an analog port. Code is shown below as well as attached. Use ROBOTC 3.51 as it uses pointers.
#pragma config(Sensor, in1, , sensorAnalog)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl1, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl2, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl3, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl4, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl5, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl6, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl7, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl8, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl9, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl10, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl11, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
#pragma config(Sensor, dgtl12, , sensorLEDtoVCC)
//*!!Code automatically generated by 'ROBOTC' configuration wizard !!*//
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* */
/* lightshow.c */
/* 26 Oct 2012 */
/* James Pearman */
/* */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Various LED patterns
// Each bit corresponds to one LED
// 1 = on, 0 = off
//
short pattern_0] = {
0b000000000001,
0b000000000010,
0b000000000100,
0b000000001000,
0b000000010000,
0b000000100000,
0b000001000000,
0b000010000000,
0b000100000000,
0b001000000000,
0b010000000000,
0b100000000000,
0b010000000000,
0b001000000000,
0b000100000000,
0b000100000000,
0b000010000000,
0b000001000000,
0b000000100000,
0b000000010000,
0b000000001000,
0b000000000100,
0b000000000010
};
short pattern_1] = {
0b100000000001,
0b010000000010,
0b001000000100,
0b000100001000,
0b000010010000,
0b000001100000,
0b000001100000,
0b000010010000,
0b000100001000,
0b001000000100,
0b010000000010,
0b100000000001
};
short pattern_2] = {
0b101010101010,
0b010101010101,
0b000000000000,
0b101010101010,
0b010101010101,
0b000000000000,
0b101010101010,
0b010101010101,
0b000000000000,
0b101010101010,
0b010101010101,
0b000000000000,
0b101010101010,
0b010101010101,
0b000000000000
};
static short runState = 0;
static short runStateMax = 0; // set this in main when you have decided
// the number of patterns
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Button press to break sequence */
/* There is no digital port available so have to use an analog port */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Did not test this, may have logic backwards
short
CheckButton()
{
// check touch sensor in analog 1
if( SensorValue in1 ] < 100 )
{
// Wait for release
while( SensorValue in1 ] < 100 )
wait1Msec(25);
// increment a global to indicate the pattern to show
if(++runState > runStateMax)
runState = 0;
return(1);
}
else
return(0);
}
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Output one word to the 12 LEDs in the digital ports */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// for debuging
short LedDebug[12];
void
display(short output)
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<12;i++)
{
SensorValue dgtl1 + i ] = output & 0x0001;
// Emulator does not show sensors so use a global to see what is happening
LedDebug i ] = output & 0x0001;
output >>= 1;
}
}
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Playback a pattern sequence */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
short
RunPattern( short *p, short len, short delayMs )
{
int i = 0;
for(i=0;i<len;i++)
{
display( *p++ );
wait1Msec(delayMs);
// button terminates early
if( CheckButton() )
return(0);
}
return(1);
}
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Create a random sequence */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
short
RunRandom( short timeMs, short delayMs )
{
int i;
// reseed based on current systen time
srand( nSysTime );
for(i=0;i<timeMs/delayMs;i++)
{
display( rand() % 4095 );
wait1Msec(delayMs);
// button terminates early
if( CheckButton() )
return(0);
}
return(1);
}
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Main task - run a silly lightshow on 12 LEDs connected to digital outputs */
/* 1 through 12 */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
task main()
{
int delay, i;
// we cycle 0 through 4
runStateMax = 4;
while(1)
{
// If runstate is 0 then we cycle through all patterns else just use one
// Pattern 1
if( (runState == 0) || (runState == 1) )
{
// run a pattern with speed 50
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
if( RunPattern( &pattern_0[0], sizeof(pattern_0)/sizeof(short), 50 ) == 0)
break;
}
}
// Pattern 2
if( (runState == 0) || (runState == 2) )
{
// gradually speeds up
for(delay=100;delay>10;delay-=10)
{
if( RunPattern( &pattern_1[0], sizeof(pattern_1)/sizeof(short), delay ) == 0)
break;
}
}
// Pattern 3
if( (runState == 0) || (runState == 3) )
{
// flashing
for(delay=100;delay>10;delay-=10)
{
if( RunPattern( &pattern_2[0], sizeof(pattern_2)/sizeof(short), delay ) == 0 )
break;
}
}
// Pattern 4
if( (runState == 0) || (runState == 4) )
{
// random pattern
RunRandom( 5000, 100 );
}
// No need for delay as delays are in display routines
}
}
Edit:
Updated version to fix bugs due to not actually testing the code this morning. Switch input finished (it was inverted earlier)
lightshow.c (7.1 KB)
This… is… AWESOME!!
Just what I was looking for. Thanks so much. I will post some pictures and possibly some video of the finished costume.
You are welcome, hope it works out. I did post a final working version just in case anyone looks at this thread in the future.