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Spinning things and more!: March 2013
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Sunday, March 10, 2013. The Long Overdue Go-kart Post: The Birth of SmartKart. So, I'm probably going to have to give a little bit of background on this one. 2.007. Is one of the primary design/build courses for MIT mechanical engineering undergrads, and also served to inspire tons of other robotic competitions across the globe (eg FIRST. For my 2-A degree, I'd inadvertently rendered 2.007 no longer necessary for me to graduate. Additionally, by the time I got to the point where I'd be taking 2&#...More ...
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Spinning things and more!: August 2014
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Saturday, August 9, 2014. Sending data over IR with a PIC: the DAC method. Alright, so I had what I thought was a relatively mundane problem: I wanted to send data over IR with a PIC I'm using (specifically, a PIC12LF1572). Should be simple, right? This write-up will assume some basic familiarity with microcontrollers (PICs especially) and so I'm not going to spend any time going over the basics like PWM/interrupts/etc. So, why's this an interesting problem? Original data with modulated signal. Use the D...
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Spinning things and more!: Audible Altimeter part 1
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Sunday, March 2, 2014. Audible Altimeter part 1. I was looking for a new electronics project to work on, and found some inspiration in the skydiving world. While you're in freefall, it's absolutely critical to know what altitude you're at, so you can know when to safely pull your parachute. Skydivers wear something along the lines of this. It's definitely an interesting project because everything has to be made as small and low-power as possible, in order to have it be completely portable and so that you...
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Spinning things and more!: Sending data over IR with a PIC: the DAC method
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Saturday, August 9, 2014. Sending data over IR with a PIC: the DAC method. Alright, so I had what I thought was a relatively mundane problem: I wanted to send data over IR with a PIC I'm using (specifically, a PIC12LF1572). Should be simple, right? This write-up will assume some basic familiarity with microcontrollers (PICs especially) and so I'm not going to spend any time going over the basics like PWM/interrupts/etc. So, why's this an interesting problem? Original data with modulated signal. Use the D...
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Spinning things and more!: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012. The long and (not so) tragic tale of the hub motor. Alright, where to begin. I've spent most of the last week in the EC (my dorm) courtyard working on a variety of large Rush projects (showing the new freshmen what we're about with some large-scale engineering insanity), but I squeezed in a bit of time towards my hub motor. Because I really wanted to finish it before classes start. I knocked out the rest of the winding from about 2-3:30am leading up to my 5:30am flight:. This ...
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Spinning things and more!: December 2012
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Saturday, December 8, 2012. The Quadrotor Itch Strikes Again! I was inspired by Shane. Zipping his small quadrotor across the office, and decided I wanted to make another, smaller quadrotor that I could fly indoors (unlike my other giant one. I wasn't too eager to cough up the relatively large sum of money that I threw down on Derpcopter (if I remember right it totaled something in the neighborhood of $800), so I designed one with cheap hobby parts that I could get for a lot less. I decided to use the sa...
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Spinning things and more!: List of projects
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Here's a compiled list of all the projects I've worked on recently, with links to their respective build threads:. BE3P - sensorless BLDC motor controller. Toy Product Design final project (The Equalizer). Sorry, no post for this yet, I might write one in the future though. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sending data over IR with a PIC: the DAC method. If you have any questions/suggestions! View my complete profile. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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Spinning things and more!: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013. As well as a few online resources. Then we immediately started browsing for the major components. We decided to make the controller optimized for the hub motor I built. Just to warn you, I'm going to try to start basic but this post is necessarily going to get progressively more difficult to understand if you don't already have some idea of motor control theory. So, how do you quickly switch between battery voltage and ground? Actually it wouldn't, Arduinos have fairly fragile ...
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Spinning things and more!: March 2014
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Sunday, March 2, 2014. Audible Altimeter part 1. I was looking for a new electronics project to work on, and found some inspiration in the skydiving world. While you're in freefall, it's absolutely critical to know what altitude you're at, so you can know when to safely pull your parachute. Skydivers wear something along the lines of this. It's definitely an interesting project because everything has to be made as small and low-power as possible, in order to have it be completely portable and so that you...