# Angle Measurement design

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#### vincentspm

##### Newbie level 6
anyone who know how to design a circuit and program code for angle measurement using PIC16F877A and output to LCD display.

the similar product pic as i attach.

#### Old Nick

Use a high quality linear pot as the hinge, connect as a voltage divider. The voltage in the middle of the divider vill vary linearly with angle. Use the pic to measure the voltage, convert to an angle and then send to a 7 segment display or similar.

#### bigeye

##### Newbie level 2
Put a rotary encoder on axle.
It's very simple and very high resolution is done ...

PS : Excuse my poor english, but i'm frenchy ...

#### vincentspm

##### Newbie level 6
Old Nick said:
Use a high quality linear pot as the hinge, connect as a voltage divider. The voltage in the middle of the divider vill vary linearly with angle. Use the pic to measure the voltage, convert to an angle and then send to a 7 segment display or similar.

I use code as below to detect the voltage first on convert to angle, can make correction for me, why cannot get the voltage value display on LCD? did my calculation convert to voltage wrong?

#define LCDPORT PORTD
#define LCDTRIS TRISD

unsigned temp;
unsigned voltage;

void main(){
TRISA=0xFF; //PORTA is input

#ifdef LCDPORT
// init LCD
Lcd_Init(&LCDPORT) ;
Lcd_Cmd(Lcd_CLEAR) ; // clear display
Lcd_Cmd(Lcd_CURSOR_OFF) ; // cursor off

Lcd_Out(1, 1, "Voltage =") ;
#endif

do{
voltage=((temp*5)/1024);

#ifdef LCDPORT
Lcd_Out(2, 1, voltage);
#endif

}while(1);
}

#### kmougiakos

##### Newbie level 4
As i can see you have defined the Data bits port for your LCD in the top of your program. But i can't see where are the definitions fro the control pins (E, RS, RW) of your LCD. If your compiler doesn't configure them somewhere, then you must set up the correct ones...

##### Full Member level 6
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#### vincentspm

##### Newbie level 6
Anyone can give some example code for convert the ADC to angle and display on LCD?

#### vincentspm

##### Newbie level 6
anyone can help?while read value from ADC, the code as below then how to convert to angle base on different voltage input to different angle.

do{

}while(1);

#### xorcise

##### Full Member level 2
You are using mikroC and they have an ADC output example in the compiler. An LCD can accept ASCII values from 0 to 255. If you have a number it must be converted to a string of characters. A BYTE can be 3 characters, and a WORD can be 5 characters.

mikroC has 2 functions that will do the conversion:

Code:
ByteToStr(number, bytestring)
WordToStr(number, wordstring)

LCD_OUT(1,1,bytestring)

Check the Library Reference in the compiler under Conversions. Also, check the examples folder.

#### vincentspm

##### Newbie level 6
#define LCDPORT PORTD
#define LCDTRIS TRISD

unsigned bit;
unsigned angle;
unsigned char wordstring[6] ;
void main(){

TRISA=0xFF; //PORTA is input

#ifdef LCDPORT
// init LCD
Lcd_Init(&LCDPORT) ;
Lcd_Cmd(Lcd_CLEAR) ; // clear display
Lcd_Cmd(Lcd_CURSOR_OFF) ; // cursor off
Lcd_Out(1, 1, "Angle = ") ;
Lcd_Out(1,15, "'");
#endif

do{
angle=((bit*90)/1024);
WordToStr(angle,wordstring);
Lcd_Out(1,9,wordstring);
}while(1);
}

i want supplying 0-5v and display 0-90degree, why 0-3.4v the degree output is correct but after 3.5v above all value wrong.
there are the degree display from 1-63 then 0-25, why not 0-90 ??

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