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Testing the Waters

A project log for Radiolocation using Pocket Size Transceiver

Let your home automation know which room you're in, your car to know if you're nearby or any other need to detect proximity over a range.

eric-herbersEric Herbers 11/29/2014 at 04:550 Comments

So far so good. Screwing around on the Arduino Micro I currently have, I successfully tested a nano-second timer which should be accurate down to about 63 ns. I'm relying on Timer1 in fast PWM mode to run at a pre-scaler of 1; causing each tick to increment with every clock cycle. At 16 mhz that's 62.5 ns. The only downside is that as-written it's limited to counting 4.2 seconds, but that should work fine for this application. Now I just need to work on making it compatible with the odd-ball 12 mhz platforms; otherwise 8 and 16 mhz results in nice round numbers and no chance to accumulate error.

This is borrowing heavily from the code already used for the micro-second timer, only a little simpler and designed to reset the counter at every call of the sub-routine due to the nature of how it's being used and how short it can time for.

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