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BMP085 in high-resolution mode

In Software on May 27, 2010 at 00:01

The BMP085 is a pressure sensor, as used on the Pressure Plug:

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It’s quite popular. Some people get more than one – I can only assume it’s for some sort of altitude application.

By popular demand, I’ve updated the BMP085 code to support all 4 resolution modes. There is now an optional second argument to set the oversampling:

Screen Shot 2010 05 22 at 11.45.55

Allowed values are 0..3 – the default is the same as before, i.e. 0 (no oversampling).

Sample output from the bmp085demo.pde sketch in the Ports library, adjusted to use maximum oversampling:

Screen Shot 2010 05 22 at 11.42.09

Note that the return values of some intermediate routines have been changed from 16-bit to 32-bit. The calculated results are the same as before: temperature in units of 0.1°C and pressure in Pascal (i.e. x 0.01 hPa).

  1. Where can I find information as to what the values for sampling, 0 thu 3, mean and how are the invoked?

    Hendrik van Eeden 27 May 2010 at 12am

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