Re: Re: Please Help...Programming Assitance Needed with Dragon12

> I'm gonna have to agree with some of the previous comments...
>
> You need to provide us with more information about what you need.  Based on the
> things you've said, I would assume the following:
>
> 1) You know how to probe temps from the thermistor (If you can display temps on
> an LCD at will, you can probe the temperature at will...) 2) You have a relay
> hooked up correctly to the system (You said you had it hooked to a PB2). 3) The
> relay can be used to turn the heating system on or off. (You didn't really say
> this, but what else would I assume based on what you said?)
>
> If these 3 things are true, then the only advice I could give you is this...
>
> 1)  Don't forget to set DDRB = 0xFF (or 0x04) to ensure that PB2 is defined as
> an output. 2)  Review IF statements in C and learn to put design conditional
> statements in C. 3)  You will need to utilize code that will be nearly identical
> to..
>
> if(temp<270){
>      PORTB = PORTB|0x04;  //Sets PB2 high (flips the relay)
> } else if(temp>280){
>      PORTB = PORTB&0xFB;  //Sets PB2 low  (flips the relay)
> }
>
> Now, if those last three things helped you, great!  But, if those last three
> things helped you...then one of the following is true...
>
> 1)  You didn't attend class often enough (digital output and if statements are
> trivial and fundamental parts of programming micro controllers) 2)  You attended
> but did not pay attention in class. (for the same reasons as above). 3)  Your
> university offers the worst mechatronics course I've ever heard of (basically
> for the same reasons as above)
>
> Giving you the benefit of the doubt, hopefully none of those are true.  Please
> define your problem a little more thoroughly for us...we really do want to help
> you.
>
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