I have a Grid-Eye Sensor as seen here:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/DKSB1015A/906-1002-ND/4360804
I’d like to read the data from this sensor using the Spider and USB Host. I’ve implemented all the code for which I can see the endpoints, but not sure what to do with them to read data from the sensor.
Hope that makes sense.
Is there any reason you want to use USB Host to read it? It looks like that board also breaks out the pins for I2C which would probably be a better/easier route to take.
I believe the breakout board provides a USB serial interface, using a FTDI chip and a PIC. What does the user manual say?
Looks to me like it breaks out I2C & serial (P1 & P2) directly to the sensor chip, if you want to bypass the PIC.
https://eewiki.net/display/projects/Panasonic%20GridEYE%20Breakout%20Board%20and%20GUI
I could be reading it wrong. I’d like to see a picture of the bottom side of the board.
@ ianlee74 - Yep, it does provide a I2C interface, but it looks like they provide a higher level interface with the Ft230X and PIC. I was able to find some Java code which uses the serial interface.
I think if you want to use I2C directly you need to remove two resistor, to disconnect from PIC.
Thank you for the feedback. Yes there are a couple different versions out there. One that uses the I2C and the other a mini-USB serial port. The one I have has the USB serial port. That’s why I was thinking I could use the USBHost module to gain access to the raw data from the sensor itself.
I will dig into this further to see if there is a way.
Thank you,
Jeff
@ jeffnuck - my estimate is that there is a 89.435% chance that USB host serial port will work. just a few lines of code.
@ jeffnuck -
Hey there …
Did you end up using the USB and serial communications? If so how did you address reading and writing?