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/*
SD card datalogger
This example shows how to log data from three analog sensors
to an SD card using the SD library.
The circuit:
* analog sensors on analog ins 0, 1, and 2
* SD card attached to SPI bus as follows:
** MOSI - pin 11
** MISO - pin 12
** CLK - pin 13
** CS - pin 4
created 24 Nov 2010
modified 9 Apr 2012
by Tom Igoe
This example code is in the public domain.
*/
#include <SPI.h>
#include <SD.h>
int led = 9;
const int chipSelect = 7;
int SDpower = 6;
void setup()
{
// Serial.print("Initializing SD card...");
// Serial.println("card initialized.");
pinMode(SDpower,OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(SDpower,LOW);
delay(1000);
// see if the card is present and can be initialized:
if (!SD.begin(chipSelect)) {
// Serial.println("Card failed, or not present");
// don't do anything more:
return;
}
}
void loop()
{
// make a string for assembling the data to log:
String dataString = "";
// read three sensors and append to the string:
for (int analogPin = 0; analogPin < 3; analogPin++) {
int sensor = analogRead(analogPin);
dataString += String(sensor);
if (analogPin < 2) {
dataString += ",";
}
}
// open the file. note that only one file can be open at a time,
// so you have to close this one before opening another.
File dataFile = SD.open("datalog.txt", FILE_WRITE);
// if the file is available, write to it:
if (dataFile) {
dataFile.println(dataString);
dataFile.close();
// print to the serial port too:
// Serial.println(dataString);
digitalWrite(led, LOW);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
delay(1000);
}
// if the file isn't open, pop up an error:
else {
//Serial.println("error opening datalog.txt");
}
}
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