Question for you guys. A coworker bought some of the accelerometer modules and I’m trying them out for some data acquisition. I can get good data in hyperterminal. When I write vb code to get the data, I get a few characters okay but for the most part it is gibberish. I’m using vb 6 with the MS comm controls. Anybody got any ideas?
Hey Guys, Thanks for the replies. So it gets a bit more interesting. I tried it on another machine and it works fine. I’ve writen a bunch of comm code before too and couldn’t figure out what the deal was… Just for grins here is the gibberish…
Sh`zxld Buihd 1.6 v.Analnf
Commulhbatinl8 105200 prPrdss rttrn to stapt duhphng…,
you can see it kind of looks like what it is supposed to read… which is…
Shizzle Build 1.6 w/ Boot Loader
Communication: 115200 bps
Press return to start dumping…
I guessing that my corporate managed machine just has too many useless processes that are slowing it down… I loaded my app onto my laptop and it runs great…
It could also be baud clock error or marginal/bad RS232 drivers on the questionable PC. I’ve seen those kinds of errors before.
I gave up on Hyperterminal and haven’t used it in years either. Too many phantom/weird problems. TeraTerm Pro or Bray+ Terminal are much better for embedded systems work and (best of all) they’re free.