/* BELT DEVICE _ V1.01

Imran Shamsul http://www.imranshamsul.com.au
4 sensors
4 motors
Arduino Mega 2560

*/

// these arrays are looped through, make sure your pinb and motor match.
// so mypin[1] should corrispond to mymotor[1] and so on

int myPins[] = {2,3,4,5};
int myMotors[] = {10,11,12,13};
int howmany = 4;

int maxDistance[] = {50};  //THIS IS THE PROBLEM CODE it should look like this: {50,50,50,50}
int maxPower[] = {255}; //max 255 ” {255,255,255,255}

void setup() {
// initialize serial communication:
Serial.begin(9600); // this just means you can output to the serial panel
}

void loop()
{
// establish variables for duration of the ping,
// and the distance result in inches and centimeters:
long duration, cm;

// loop through the pins array, noting theat we’ve set the limit to 5
int i; // define “i” this is used as a count variable

// start a count loop, since you know how many sensors there are, hard code this in the i < NUMBER OF SENSORS bit
for (i = 0; i < howmany; i = i + 1) {

// The PING))) is triggered by a HIGH pulse of 2 or more microseconds.
// Give a short LOW pulse beforehand to ensure a clean HIGH pulse:
// check the pin pMyPin[i]
pinMode(myPins[i], OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(myPins[i], LOW);
delayMicroseconds(2);
digitalWrite(myPins[i], HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(5);
digitalWrite(myPins[i], LOW);

// The same pin is used to read the signal from the PING))): a HIGH
// pulse whose duration is the time (in microseconds) from the sending
// of the ping to the reception of its echo off of an object.
pinMode(myPins[i], INPUT);
duration = pulseIn(myPins[i], HIGH);

// convert the time into a distance
cm = microsecondsToCentimeters(duration);

Serial.print(myPins[i]);
Serial.print(“-“);
Serial.print(cm);
Serial.print(“cm”);
Serial.println();

int motorPWM = map(cm,maxDistance[i],0,0,maxPower[i]); //variable map formula relationship
motorPWM = constrain(motorPWM, 0, 255);

analogWrite(myMotors[i],motorPWM);

Serial.print(“motorPWM = “);
Serial.println(motorPWM);

delay(200);
}

}

long microsecondsToCentimeters(long microseconds)

{
// The speed of sound is 340 m/s or 29 microseconds per centimeter.
// The ping travels out and back, so to find the distance of the
// object we take half of the distance travelled.
return microseconds / 29 / 2;
}