Romi 32U4 Control Board Pin 12 always low

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Hi

I am testing Romi 32U4 Control Board by connecting IR Obstacle Avoidance Sensor ( http://www.electrodragon.com/product/infraredir-obstacle-avoidance-sensor-moduleadjust-distance/) to free GPIO pins and reading values.

Out of 8 free pins ( 0, 1, 5, 12, A0, A2, A3, and A4 ), 7 pins ( 0, 1, 5, A0, A2, A3, and A4 ) are working correctly but
pin 12’s voltage is always 0 and not working.

I checked the voltage of pin 12 without connecting sensor and it’s 0V, (other free pins are about 5V)
When I connect the sensor to pin 12, the indicator of the sensor goes immediately 0 and is always 0 regardless of the sensing state.

The user guide says the following but I am not sure if it’s related to my case.

Pin 5 (PC6) is a hardware PWM output and is usable with the Arduino analogWrite() function. Pin 12 (A11/PD6) can also be used as a PWM output, but it is not supported by analogWrite(), and using pin 12 for PWM might conflict with uses of pin 6 (which controls the buzzer by default) as these two pins are complementary outputs of Timer4 channel D.

Pins 12 (A11/PD6), A0 (18/PF7), A2 (20/PF5), A3 (21/PF4), and A4 (22/PF1) can be used as analog inputs.

Do I need to configure something for the pin 12?

Thanks in advance

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Hello.

Pin 12 should not require any special configuration and there are no onboard peripherals that use it. Are you initializing it as a digital input? Have you tried to disconnect the sensor and initialize that pin to use the internal pullup resistor or as an output (with a digital write) to see if it changes state?

-Nathan

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Hello Nathan

Thank you for the advice.

After using the pin as output to see if its state change, the problem seems to have resolved by itself.

For the record, I was originally using FastGPIO library to set up input

FastGPIO::Pin<12>::setInputPulledUp();
FastGPIO::Pin<12>::isInputHigh();

And after your commend I also tried Arduino’s standard way

pinMode(12, INPUT_PULLUP);
digitalRead(12);

but this didn’t work either.

After using the pin as output as follow, however, it started working.

void setup() {
  pinMode(12, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(12, HIGH);
  Serial.println(digitalRead(12));
  digitalWrite(12, LOW);
  Serial.println(digitalRead(12));
}

I am not sure what was wrong, but now it’s working.

Thank you very much. :grin:

Moto

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I am glad to hear it is working. Thanks for letting me know.

-Nathan