Online documentation for PhidgetInterfaceKit

Generated 2006-03-17

Used to control a PhidgetInterfaceKit.

Summary

This component can be used to connect to and control a PhidgetInterfaceKit.

Description

This component can be used to connect to any of the variety of available PhidgetInterfaceKits. These devices can be used to gather both analog and digital inputs, and to produce digital outputs. For more information, see http://www.phidgets.com.

Installation

Installing the Phidget library

Before using any Phidget component, you should install the Phidget library. This can be downloaded from http://www.phidgets.com - click downloads, then release then download and install PHIDGET.msi.

Installing a PhidgetInterfaceKit board

Before using this component, you should (in this order)
  1. connect as sensors that are required to your PhidgetInterfaceKit board
  2. connect your board, via USB, to your computer

Configuration

If you only have one PhidgetInterfaceKit board connected to your computer, then simply create a PhidgetInterfaceKit component, and set its configured property to true. The component will then connect to the board and create the correct number of digitalin,digitalout and analogin properties for the board that you have used. If you have more than one board connected, find out the serial number of the board you wish to connect, specify this using the configSerialNumber property, and then set the configured property to true.

Usage

digitalin and analogin properties will automatically update to match the signals being received by the board. You can set any of the digitalout properties to a value in the range 0.0-1.0, and the board will then change the relevant digital output.