hi! what board do you use and what OS?
your datasheet says that VCC is +5V and the TX pin also work in 0-VCC range. If you use beaglebone it accepts only 3.3V, however there can be options 2013/11/4 Gustavo Oliveira <gustavo.pinho...@gmail.com> > Hello, > I'm trying to read from a LV-Maxsonar-EZ0 using the serial interface. > > I have connected the wires correctly and I have placed an overlay in uart2. > The problem is the data I'm reading from the sensor. I can only get > garbage, but its not completely wrong because the data changes according to > the distance to obstacle. > > The datasheet for the sensor can be found here: > datasheet<http://www.maxbotix.com/documents/MB1000_Datasheet.pdf> > . > > I searched google for a day and couldn't find anything... > Someone posted in a raspberry pi forum that the problem is the meaning of > 1s and 0s, but I changed active_low to 1 and I got the same. > > I'm not very proficient with electronics, so I might take some time > following instructions. > Nonetheless all the help will be welcome. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maximpodbereznyy Company - http://www.linkedin.com/company/mentorel Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mentorel.company -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.