A friend of mine is struggling with antenna rotator controllers, so I would like to help out and build one for the both of us.
I did some experiementing a while back, where I sent a PIC chip a three digit azimuth value.
The code I wrote turned the "123" into a binary 8 bit value.
This was then compared with the position (or ADC voltage) of a PIC.
I am wondering if it might be simpler to convert the three digit value that comes from say predict under linux, to an 8 bit number before sending it to the PIC.
I often give it a start character, such as a "#"
So I would be sending "#A" (decimal 10) to the PIC instead of having to convert "#010" in the PIC itself
Comments ? Experiences ?
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