MATLAB communication with Arduino Uno (with servos)

Hello guys, I'm trying to connect 2 servos to Arduino so to move them by digiting the degrees in MATLAB. I hope you guys can help me.

Here´s the code for MATLAB:

clear all

clc 

dato=[1 0]; 

arduino=serial('COM3','BaudRate',9600);

fopen(arduino);

while dato

fprintf(arduino,'%s',char(dato));

dato=input('Dame coordenadas:  '); 

end

fclose(arduino);

Here´s the code for Arduino.

#include <Servo.h> 

Servo myservo;

int pos = 0;
int a;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  myservo.attach(9);

}

char cadena[24];
byte contador=0;
int valor = 0;
void loop(){

    for(a; a<1; a++){
      Serial.print("Introduzca posicion de servo :");
    }  

    if(Serial.available()){
      memset(cadena, 0, sizeof(cadena));

      while (Serial.available()>0){
        delay(5);
        cadena[contador]=Serial.read();
        contador++;

      }
      valor=atoi(cadena); 
      valor = min(valor, 180);       //establece valor maximo
      valor = max(valor, 0);          //establece valor minimo
      Serial.print(valor);               //imprime en pantalla el valor introducido
      Serial.println(" grados");
      myservo.write(valor);           //establece el valor como posicion myservo
      a=0;                                    //reiniciamos a para volver a mostrar aviso para introduccion de datos
      contador=0;

      delay(100);     
    }
  }

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You have

dato=[1 0];

and then you have

while dato

When you apply "if" or "while" to a vector or array, the test is only considered to be true if all the elements are non-zero. Your second element of dato is 0, so the "while" fails the first time around, and the fprintf() is never executed.