Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Setting Up Serial Comm with MFC via Arduino

I am now working on linking our Arduino to the Alicat MFCs.  I am connecting Serial port 3 on the arduino to the Alicat via a DB9 on our custom made Arduino shield.  As far as the software goes, I am first just forwarding strings sent to the Arduino from MATLAB on the PC to the Alicat and strings sent from the Alicat back to MATLAB.

One of the things I want to be able to do is to produce different odor concentration waveforms by manipulating the MFCs.  For example sine curves.

To do this more interesting and faster control, I will implement direct functions in the Arduino that will manipulate the MFC flow rate in real time.

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