I am building an robotic arm by using flex sensor, servo and 2 xbees

Question

Rx Code:

#include <Servo.h>
Servo myServo;

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
myServo.attach(9);
delay(5000);
myServo.write(0);
}

void loop() {
  while(Serial.available()==0);

    int d = Serial.read() - '0';
    if(d>0)
    {
      int pos = map(d,0,9,0,180);
      pos = constrain(pos,0,180);
      myServo.write(pos);
      Serial.println(d);

      delay(50);
      }
      else
      {};

}

Tx code:

int sensorValue = 0;         // the sensor value
int sensorMin = 1023;        // minimum sensor value
int sensorMax = 0;           // maximum sensor value
int SensorMid = 0;
const int POWER_OF_TWO_TO_AVERAGE = 6;

void setup() {
pinMode(13,OUTPUT);
  Serial.begin(9600);

  while (millis() < 10000) {
    digitalWrite(13,HIGH);
    sensorValue = analogRead(A1);
    if (sensorValue > sensorMax) {
      sensorMax = sensorValue;
    }
    if (sensorValue < sensorMin) {
      sensorMin = sensorValue;
    }
  }
  SensorMid = (sensorMin + sensorMax )/2;
  digitalWrite(13,LOW);
  }

void loop() {
int val = map(analogRead(A1),SensorMid,sensorMax,0,9);
Serial.println(val);
delay(100);
}

I am building a robotic arm and I am facing some problems regrading to the servos stability with the flex, I am using the flex as the transmitter and the servo as the receiver, and when I press my finger my servo doesn't move properly.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Without knowing more about the actual problem of "doesn't move properly", what I initially see is that you are transmitting values 0-9 by using Serial.println(), which sends the byte data, and also a newline (ASCII value 10), so your RX code is probably getting alternating input of the intended value, and the value 10, which is getting subtracted from 48 (the ASCII value of '0'), mapped and constrained to 0.

Try changing your TX script to call Serial.print() instead. Your receiver doesn't care about each value showing up on a new line -- it doesn't know about lines.