Hey,
For our project we are to make a sensor package,
Consisiting of 3 sensors measuring between 0-5V that the micro-controller needs to take as inputs and then save the value into a memory EEPROM during its time of operation. We are to then be able to retrieve the package and collect the data saved from the EEPROM to turn it into an excel graph.
Sensors we are using are Acceleration, Pressure, Magnetic Apogee.
This entire package is the payload unit in a rocket we are designing.
We chose the PIC16F877 microcontroller for this.
I've been trying to read through Nigel's tutorial of programming LED's and things to understand the programming but what we are trying to do seems very complex to do by ourselves.
Things i think we need to fully understand to make this program would be the A-D conversion of the inputs to save into EEPROM, How to write/read data from EEPROM, To be able to set sampling rates for sensors so as to save data accordingly into the EEPROM.
Problem is I just cant find the exact PIC16F877 tutorials to do this. Or previous programs that were similar to this.
Would anyone be able to help me with the programming of this since this is the first time we are dealing with micro-controller programming and just the bank selections and port alteration to Input/Output seems complex enough to then be able to take data in/out of EEPROM.
If anyone is willing to help i can provide the full details of the sensors that we got, the circuit diagram we designed and intend to use and any additional details.
Any help would be much appreciated. We aint trying to ask someone to do the entire programming for us, Just really need help with this as it seems pretty complex even when we try to brake it down to just be for one sensor and develop into 3