Elevator program

[thagrandfinale]

I made an elevator and I control a stepper motor. What I use is the parallel cable to connect to an input device and I have a keypad that controls up and down. But what I want to do is control which floors to go to and also continuous movement because what i have to do is hold a number to keep it moving and i dont want to have to do that. if anyone can help me with this program it would be appreciated.

What i added was teh simple program i made just for up and down movements.

[Delos]

Sorry dude...most ppls here don't have/use parallelport too much...
I looked at the code, couldn't quite make heads or tails of it...

You just may be on your own...

[thagrandfinale]

well say you just made a visual of the program elevator then. how would you control what floor to go to, say u were at the first, how would u go to the second and not keep gonig to the third?

[Paul]

I'd have preset coordinates for each floor, like in an array, then when the floor is chosen, I'd runa for loop to animate the elevator moving to that floor.

[thagrandfinale]

Easier said than done

[Paul]

lol, what are u talking about, I don't know anything about the real elevator program with the parallel ports, but I do know the animation isn't difficult.
its like u have 2 variables, one for the current floor and one for the floor ur going, have the coordinates of each floor in an array, then do something like

code:

if going up then for a: current..destination drawelevator (elevator, x, a, 2) delay (5) View.Update cls end for elsif going down then for decreasing a: current..destination drawelevator (elevator, x, a, 2) delay (5) View.Update cls end for end if

[thagrandfinale]

are any programs on this forum have similar to what your talking about? if i look at it i could understand better

[Paul]

I don't think so, if I was inclined to touch turing this month I'd make one right now, but Im not, so u can always wait until someone finds this thread and decides to make one.

[thagrandfinale]

thanks anyway

[TrAnCeIn4LiFe]

here is a code for elevator that works but with out binary to decimal decoder ....

code:

parallelput (1) delay (2000) % These two lines of code lift the elevator's platform for 2 seconds. put "Welcome to floor one!" parallelput (0) delay (2000) % This command leaves the elevator at floor one for 2 seconds. parallelput (1) delay (2000) % This command raises the elevator to floor 2. put "Welcome to floor two!" parallelput (0) delay (2000) % This command leaves the elevator at floor two for 2 seconds. parallelput (2) delay (2000) % Brings the elavator down to level 1. put "Welcome to floor one!" parallelput (0) delay (2000) % This command leaves the elevator at floor one for 2 seconds. parallelput (2) delay (2000) % This command returns the platform to ground level. put "Welcome to the ground level!" parallelput (0)

if u want also binary to decimal decoder u have to change paralleputs a bit, put 8 to display floor 2 and also paralleput2 in same parallel put
ex paralleput ( 2 + 8)
and for it to display floor 1 i belvie it goes something like
parallelput ( 2+4)
ill check 2morow

[thagrandfinale]

Well to help other people out... i put keypad wires into my input device and the connectors act like binary... 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 and ground.... so my x values are teh base value of the computer plus the connector... so for example. x = 132 i got that from say the base value was 128 for the computer, then 4 would be what the keypad was connected to, to operate. i guess i should update my comments

[thagrandfinale]

heres some info bout parallel stuff...

[thagrandfinale]

Can anyone edit this program so it can go to each floor? i already have it all started... well i jsut cant get floor 2 to work