The design consists of two servos, mounted in a way in witch one servo pans the other on an x axes, while the other servo tilts a laser on it's y axes. The laser is turned on and off with a transistor, and a camera shutter control is operated by a transistor....
Originally started with a digispark, right now using a bare ATtiny85 - MIGHT need to switch to ATtiny84 for more pins... I just have to go get one!Currently using an I2C 16x2 display which is overkill and too big, going to switch to 7 segment LED x 2...
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...
I bought an XMS amplifier from a friend years ago and although it was serving it's purpose I got quite frustrated with having to toggle the loudness feature every time the input was changed. This was the beginning of what has now become my network enabled...
I've been busy with other projects, summer and the day job, but here's an update on the Pinstax. After weeks of perking this project through my brain, I enjoyed some frenzied productivity as ideas came to 3D printed reality. One of the problems...
The idea behind this project was for my sons birthday party. He wanted a robot themed party, so I figured this would be the easiest to build. Similar to the commercial claw machines, the idea is to grab a toy and successfully get it transferred over...
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 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...
The general approach using DDAs will be to simulate a system of first-order differential equations, which can be nonlinear. Analog computers use operational amplifiers to do mathematical integration. We will use digital summers and registers. For any...
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...
One of the most demanding applications for fast arithmetic is digital flitering. Atmel application note AVR201 shows how to use the hardware multiplier to make a multiply-and-accumulate operation (MAC). The MAC is the basis for computing the sum of terms...
IntroductionAt the head of the setup is a router that provides internet access for the system. The first node is comprised of a chipKIT Max32, Max32 Ethernet Shield and XBee Shield (developed PCB). The second node is the Wireless Thermostat that is responsible...
Video GenerationThere are several very good references for understanding how TVs are controlled by a pulse sequence. I particularly liked the Stanford EE281 Handout #7 entitled "TV paint". Also very useful were Software generated video, by Rickard Gunée,...