Ultrasonic Sensor HC-SR04

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Description

The HC-SR04 is an ultrasonic distance sensor that can measure distances from 2cm to 400cm. It sends out an ultrasound signal and detects the echo. By measuring the time you can calculate the distance.

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more details:

How to connect it electrically

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Required Module and Files


How to control it in MicroPython

 1 from hcsr04 import HCSR04
 2 from time import sleep
 3 
 4 sensor = HCSR04(trigger_pin=12, echo_pin=14)
 5 sleep(1)
 6 i=0
 7 
 8 while True:
 9   distance = sensor.distance_cm()
10   print(i, ': Distance:', distance, 'cm')
11   i=i+1
12   sleep(0.5)



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