I am looking at both arduino duel and DFRobot Romeo’s. What connectors do I need to interface my Phidget analog sensors to these boards? What connectors do I need in general to plug in digital and analog stuff to these boards? I will likely get the Ethernet shield for the Arduino. Is there a similar shield for the DFRobot Romeo.
Hello, I need to connect a Precision Light Sensor 1127 (phidgets) to an Arduino Duemilanove,
What do i need to do this?
Or there is a light sensor that’s work for Arduino?
Thanks!
Also, you may decide to use a solderless breadboard and convert all the connectors to Pin headers. Another handy prototyping aid that goes with the Pin Headers are Jumper Wires. We have many flavors of the abovementioned.
Hi pjsquared,
The ROMEO already has the pinout for these sensors. Note that Phidgets cables include a clip so you cannot put three together, though you can substitute these with servo cable. The easiest way to interface them with a Duemilanove is to use a shield such as the Seeedstudio Electronic Brick shield, or brick-pintout hybrid shield or DFRobot IO shield. For sensor breakout boards, you can use servo cable (various lengths such as 6", 12", 24"). The DFRobot ROMEO can also use shields, except you need to know which pins are used for the dual motor controller.
There are three connectors from the board: Ground (0V), Power (5V) and Analog Output (see wire diagram).
Connect the GND from the sensor to GND on the Arduino, the 5V to the 5V pin on the Arduino and the analog pin to any of the analog I/O pins. RB-Spa-101 may be useful.
