- Thu May 02, 2013 2:10 pm
#159113
But if I'm remembering right the Uno only has 2 interrupts. Although I've read that all of the pins can be configured to have interrupts if you twiddle the registers. I do have a spare Uno on hand just in case the full processing load of 24 targets and two guns was too much for a single one. I could use one Uno for each gun.
Sigh... yes, I was trying to run the entire range with a single Uno. That would have given me some bragging rights at Maker Faire and I thought the MUX and PWM boards might make it achievable. But I realize it might be a bit of a stretch and I picked up a spare to fall back on.
you'd need a way to combine all the targets outputs into 1 or 2 interrupt signals (1 per gun ?).The MCP23017 was the mux chip that I primarily looked at, and I actually have 4 of them on hand right now. (Enough for replacements if one blows out during an event.) Each chip actually has 16 ports and 2 interrupt pins so each gun could have 2 interrupts... one for every 6 targets.
But if I'm remembering right the Uno only has 2 interrupts. Although I've read that all of the pins can be configured to have interrupts if you twiddle the registers. I do have a spare Uno on hand just in case the full processing load of 24 targets and two guns was too much for a single one. I could use one Uno for each gun.
Sigh... yes, I was trying to run the entire range with a single Uno. That would have given me some bragging rights at Maker Faire and I thought the MUX and PWM boards might make it achievable. But I realize it might be a bit of a stretch and I picked up a spare to fall back on.