Sensors -- hardware? Reading data?

[prko]

@wws

Was the part usb powered, like could you just plug it and go?

Yes!

@wws

I am also wondering if I could read data using the /dev directory given that the OS is unix underneath the pretty.

I cannot remember it exactly. Anyway, I used it on Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 as follows:

Conversion from a Collection to an Integer

Dear users, From a USB proximity sensor (MB1403 HRUSB-MaxSonar-EZ0 |), SerialPort in SC receives the following ASCII numbers: -> 82 -> 48 -> 51 -> 48 -> 48 -> 13 The first and the last number is fixed, and the others are variable from 48 to 57. I only need the values from the second one to the fifth one. Converting these series with Code I ~port = SerialPort( "/dev/ttyUSB0", baudrate: 57600, databits: 8, stopbit: 1, parity: 0 ); fork{ 4.do { var received = 6.collect{~port.next.asAscii}; …