PWM input?

Can the mini maestro be used to decode pwm from my rc reciever and send the values to the pc?

thanks

Peter

Hello,

No, sorry, the Maestro does not have any mode where it can make RC pulse measurements.

-Paul

Note that some of our motor controllers have this ability. The new Simple Motor Controllers have two RC input channels, and the user can request the values on those channels over USB or serial. The TReX motor controllers have five RC input channels, and the user can request the values on those channels over serial.

If you don’t actually need to control motors and you’re comfortable with programming, however, I’d recommend you get something like our Baby Orangutan and program it to read the pulses and report it to the computer using serial (the programmer can act as a USB-to-serial adapter). The Pololu AVR library has code that makes it easy to read digital pulses, such as the ones output by your RC receiver.

- Ben