When a visitor to our site requests to control Sid our Node.js server adds them to the queue. When it's their turn they send movement commands and receive feedback in realtime using socket.io. These commands are relayed from Node.js to the Rapsberry...
HydraBus v1.0 Rev1.5 In Stock on DigiKey:https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/benjamin-vernoux/hydrabus-v1/15652912 Features of the HydraBus board: Very small board only 60mm x 37mm size (extensible with shield which can be connected on top or...
So, where I stand now. I ended up using a Mesa 5i25 PCI card and a 7i76 step/dir control card. The Yaskawa servos have pretty good auto tune so I decided to leave the PID loop up to the servo drives.Speaking of servo drives, that and the servo motors...
I picked up the vacuum system from Portland State two weeks ago from a professor I know. It was too big for the little things they do and by the time it warms up and pumps down there is no time left. So they decided to get rid of this system and build...
This HOW-TO explains a quick and easy way to speed up NetBSD pkgsrc compiling on retrocomputers. It was written because there are altogether too many distcc how-tos which are complex, require special build environments or make assumptions without explaining...
For my GPSDO project I’ve opted for a Piezo 2940210 VCOCXO at 10 Mhz. There is a dearth of information on this particular module available online.(A notation notation: I utilize “E” notation to indicate orders of magnitude; thus 1.5E-6...
[Intro] {Updated 2/25/2016}VisualK-OS collectively refers my custom-built system of lighting devices, intended for use with my band's (Saturn's Iris) live shows. To date, the system consists of: The main control center, Thor and the Flood Bank Array...
To make the claw open and close, a 24V solenoid is used to pull the plunger into the cavity and close the claw via the linkage. There is a return spring that allows for the plunger to be pushed out and open up the claws. this was added as...
Nakano, K., et.al.(refs below) describe two versions of a small stack machine suitable for implementation on an FPGA and they give the Verilog source code on their web site. The design was ported to the DE2 board and extended to have a richer set of...
For a bimolecular reaction involving two molecules A and B, with concentrations [A] and [B] and a rate constant K, the probability of the reaction occuring (from mass action) will be K[A][B] . Assuming a time step which is short enough to make the probability...
To synthesize nice sounding musical notes you need to control spectral content of the note, the rise time (attack), fall time (decay), and the change in spectral content during attack and decay. Also it is nice to have at least two independent musical...
We can use the FPGA to do fast numerical integration to solve differential equation models of neurons. This page describes a couple of neuron models and their solution by DDA techniques. Eugene Izhikevich developed a simple, semiempirical, model of cortical...