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Interfacing Parallax GPS with BX-24   [2 Articles]

Hi, Can any one please help me to program a parallax GPS in the Basicx, because I Try but i dont know what I am doing Wrong. I want to read the lines that the GPS send out b...

Help to program a Parallax GPS in the Basicx-24p

Hi, I need help to program the parallax GPS in the BasicX-24 microcontroller can any one help me please??. Or give me a Hint about how start? ---------------------------------...

RE: Help to program a Parallax GPS in the Basicx-24p   [2 Articles]

You should just be able to talk to it using a serial connection. I think it's 4800 baud. I have one of the Parallax GPS units and there are two modes. The normal mode just send...

GPS NMEA problems   [21 Articles]

Hello I woudl like to use DateTimeNMEA.zip example !!! With my GPS device GPS_Text_Decoder.zip works great, but DateTimeNMEA.bas with serial_24.bas and also Support_24.bas do ...

COS SIN Operation   [8 Articles]

Hy, I would like to interface a GPS on a Basicx chip but needs a lot of precision on the SIN and COS operation For example sin(45.0001 deg) is this something that this chip su...

Re: Mircocontroller Starter Kit

> As a starter, what would be a good > microcontroller development kit to purchase with complete software > package including some small test code for me to get start. I ...

Re: Button code not working

Change your code to if(GetPin(12) = 0) Then Your switch should connect between pin 12 and ground. By assigning it to bxInputPullup, it will show high unless the pin is...

Another odd GPS/queue problem   [2 Articles]

I'm confused (again) and would love some help. I am still trying to get my GPS application to give solid data. I've ripped the app down to the most basic components (simply p...

Debug.Print-ing issues   [3 Articles]

I know it sounds stupid, but, yes, I am having trouble printing some data to the PC's screen. No, I am not a newbie. My students and I have been working on building an autono...

Re: RE:a USB GPS to a BX-24

Victor, I'm confused. Did you use the FT232RL USB to Serial Breakout board between your PC and the ZX24 or between the ZX24 and a USB GPS device? If the latter, how'd you do...

Connect a USB GPS to a BX-24

I need to connect a recent Garmin GPS (USB interface) to a BX-24 so I get decode the NMEA sentences coming from the GPS. I can do that without any problems with older GPS equi...

Need additional serial port

I have a project with a BX-24 where I need an additional serial port. COM1 is already used for debugging and to read&write configuration data with a VB program. COM3 is alr...

bx24/gps system   [5 Articles]

Hey everyone. Sorry if this message is posted multpile times. I am a mechanical engineer at Rice University and i got stuck with an electrical engineering design project for my...

Re: Re: BX-24 & DS-GPM   [3 Articles]

hiya Tom, first off... thanks for gettin back to me. ok i'll explain what i'm doin: i've built a robot for a final year university project. i'm puttin the GPS unit on it as a m...

Re: Re: Parallax/Hitachi HM55B Compass Example

I guess I answered my own question by reading the info on the honeywell website. I had no idea there was so much stuff out there for compassing. I am currently working on crea...

Re: Reading multiple PWM sources?

Just for completeness' sake, try calling the float version, which is a procedure call rather than a function, and see if you get the same results. --- In b...@yahoogroups.com,...

Problem with COM1 and COM3

Hi to all, great group. I've got the bx24 since 2002. Now I use this chip for inquiring an OEM GPS and send the NMEA sentence to a GSM modem. All it works dearly if I use COM3 f...

Serial protocol

Hello ! I have an extra Innovate XD-16 display, and i'd like to display speed from an gps ... I can handle getting speed from the gps , but driving this display doesn't see...

Re: NMEA to BX-24   [2 Articles]

Thank You Tom and Paul ! You are both right ! The RMC string is the easiest way , I was just too tired yesterday to see that ... I just needed to add two lines to the existing...

3rd uart port

Is it possible to add a 3rd uart port to a BasicX01. I am building a navigation status unit and need two RS232 ports, one to communicate with a GPS unit and one with a compas...

New file uploaded to basicx

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the basicx group. File : /GPS_Example.bas Upl...

Com3 Vs. PulseOut   [4 Articles]

I'm working on a project where I'm trying to navigate a 4WD skid-steer bot using data from a gps. I have a BX-24p in a Lynxmotion mini atom bot board. Pin 20 is connected th...

Re: Problem loading static data in EEPROM

Sorry for the long delay, I got switched off to another urgent project for a while. I just read your message. Yes it is the same project. It is now working perfectly. ...

Re: RTC

You have had answers regarding using a "real time clock" to keep the time "synchronized". Yes, something like the DS1307 is a good answer. But if you need it synchronized ...

Re: Parallel port vs Serial

--- In basicx@basi..., "c04203420" wrote: > I know java has a serial api what i dont know is how to communicate > directly with the bx-24 using that api...

BX-24 + GPS + GPRS for fleet-tracking   [7 Articles]

Hi, I need to design a rugged, industrial-grade fleet-tracking system using BX-24 and GPS + GPRS modules to periodically send SMS text messages with GPS location data...

String to Numeric Value

Hey all, I've got my GPS sending strings into my BX24. I've got these split into strings that just contain the values I need, for instance, my string sNorth holds the v...

Re: BX-35 DIY Board   [2 Articles]

It sounds like it will be nice! I have a very simple dev board for the BX-24. I really like it. It does not have much support hardware. Just a voltage regulator, an DB-9 f...

Re: BxDism question re:stack   [6 Articles]

I succeeded in reducing my stack requirement from 223 to 140 bytes by eliminating unused variables that were hanging on from various iterations of the code. I then us...

Serial port questions: queues   [4 Articles]

I have a project interfacing a hand-held GPS unit and displaying data at higher numerical resolution than the GPS unit itself displays, and then doing post-processing on t...

Re: Anybody here hacked a (USB) Bluetooth dongle?

Tom, wow. That's well beyond BT specs if I recall. My Palm T3 with a TomTom GPS can only get around 10ft at best... I definitely want to check out that module. Thanks! ...

Re: questions re: strings   [3 Articles]

Don: Rampoke(). Great suggestion. AH, BasicX uses a string store.... I presume that a string is dynamically allocated, but how can it allocate enough space without ...

Re: Time

Thats a fairly deep observation Tom. On the subject of time, I recently bought a microset, which is a precision peice of gear for checking the time of clocks and watches.I...

multitasking problem   [11 Articles]

Background… I have written a main program that is intended to read GPS text as a task (140 task stack) and run an xbotx. For my bot I am using code that came from Netmed...

Re: SRF04   [3 Articles]

Yes, I have had less than stellar results with my SRF08. It seems to give reasonable distance measurements up close, but it gets variable reflectance from the ground, and ...

Having trouble downloading programs   [4 Articles]

I was tweaking a program for stack size and time delay until I realized pressing the reset button wasn't enough to get the program to download. I had to disconnect and r...

Re: Question about Interrupts   [7 Articles]

Actually I have my first basicX connected to a GPS and my second connected to many other devices(such as sonars,etc...).What i want to do,is course correction by the second...

4 channel multiplexer   [2 Articles]

I have a need to distribute a single 3 wire RS232 to one of four seperate devices depending upon certain conditions in application processor. I may want to talk to a seria...