Quick Start Guide1. Connect device and matrix sensor. 2. Connect device and your PC with USB cable. 3. Open device manager and check if device is correctly recognized. You should see 'USB Serial Port(COMxx)' or something similar in device manager. 4. Download and unzip Snowforce file * DO NOT UNZIP SNOWFOR IN A SYSTEM FOLDER SUCH AS "PROGRAM FILES" Or, you can get source code at the link below if you run snowforce from Processing environment 5. Double click snowforce.exe 6. Click CHOOSE PORT and select port you saw in device manager. 7. Click 'LOAD INI' 8. In file dialog, go to data folder, find appropriate ini file, and click Open. ※ Generally, an INI file is named by this convention - BOARDNAME_SENSOR.ini 9. Click Start. 10. Now you can see force image. Manual0. DownloadBinary can be found at this page. - Direct download: snowforce-2018.04.13.zip Source code can be found at GitHub. 1. Choose COM PortSelect a serial (com) port to which the Snowboard is attached. After this, click Start button to start data acquisition 2. Start/Stop DeviceYou can start and stop device by clicking this buttong. 3. Start/Stop LoggingToggle logging measurement data. Data is saved in data folder as a CSV file format. CSV file format can be read by a text editor or a spreadsheet application such as MS Excel.During logging, two files are created with names automatically given as follows:
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For example, in data folder you will see these kind of files. 4. Load INISnowforce comes with several predefined INI files for different sensors. By default, 1610 sensor is selected but you can choose other sensor INI files
5. Real-time Frame DataData from Snowboard is displayed in real-time and can be on/off by pressing 'm'. 6. General InformationGeneral information shown in this area. 7. Shortcut Keys'2': 2D display '3': 3D display Up/Down Arrows: Increase or decrease signals 'f': Toggle grid fill (3D only) 'g': Toggle grid (3D only) 'n': Toggle noise filtering 't': Apply threshold values. Values are circulated across 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 whenever 't' is pressed. 'x': Toggle X directional reverse 'y': Toggle Y directional reverse 'z': Toggle Z directional reverse (3D only) 'm': Toggle real-time ADC frame data display space bar: Toggle message displays up arrow key: Increase amplification level down arrow key: Decrease amplification level Manual for SNOWFORCE 2015-03-03 Select a serial (com) port to which the Snowboard is attached. After this, click Start button to start data acquisition Data LoggingToggle logging measurement data. Data is saved in data folder as a CSV file format. CSV file format can be read by a text editor or a spreadsheet application such as MS Excel.During logging, two files are created with names automatically given as follows:
where
For example, in data folder you will see these kind of files. YYYYMMDDThhmmss-1d.csv |
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