I've had comments regarding the validity of using Geiger–Müller Tubes for a cosmic ray (muon) detector. Pointing out that Photomultipliers and scintillation panels are best, and yes the are far more effective. However, they are also expensive,...
I did another test with the rev1 prototype, this time only measuring voltage, and bringing it all the way to the maximum voltage of 60V. Again I am doing calibration and comparison to my Fluke 101 Multimeter. This has a problem as the Fluke 101 does...
1/30/2021 - bringing up boards notes Sch/brd name Wedding 5Using Atmega328PBAAA battery footprint (not AA as mentioned before) still not quite rightProgramming over ISP works, power supply worksProgramming over FTDI/ UART works, I found this to be finicky,...
One thing unresolved bit of the LCD is the R/~W line. I had largely assumed that the display was write only in this product, but I was quite wrong as reading is needed at least to poll the 'busy' bit in the status register. I had found the...
Yesterday before sleep I replace LD271 IR LED and this morning oficially started data gathering.On the pic you can see my morning glucosis test. Unfortunately the hour is wrong, need to fix it.What I found strange is the variation of measurements in...
In this post I want to share how I selected a suitable topology for the resistor network that will be the core of the programmable decade resistor. Although I did some online “research”, the following criteria determined my choices: Switch...
In this chapter, the fundamental concepts of hexapod robots such as walking gaits, stability, kinematics and dynamics are covered which are essential to obtain a better understanding of the control architecture that is delivered in the next chapter....
The oven gives you a bunch of informative feedback over serial about its current operation. For example, here's the output from a reflow process: Reflow Started Profile Settings (1) PreHt: 100°C, 80s Heat: 180°C, 220s Ref: 240°C, 30s RefKp:...
Today we present the FlameWheel Robot assembly tutorial and quick-start guide! It is rather difficult to assemble this robot without guidance. Feel free to refer to my introductory tutorial today.Flamewheel (A 2WD Remote Control Robot) is part of our...
As the amazing online GPRS Weather Station project continues, we have yet another upgrade to the vast array of sensors with a professional analogue wind vane, kindly donated by Vector Instruments. This device will eventually be hooked into the new, upgraded,...
SATA StatusAfter weeks of painful debugging. I have been able to read and write to the hard drive!I ran into an issue though... the speed at which I can communicate with my FPGA to/from my computer maxes out at about 16MBs and the hard drive reads/writes...
Really Mike, why a TMD-3? Before I talk about what TMD-3 will be, I would like to give a brief overview of Turing machines, the TMD-1 and TMD-2 designs, and what prompted me to want to do a TMD-3. Turing Machines 101 The Turing machine was invented in...
OK I thought that the amount of data in the future would be too large and I decided to do the sieving in C. Using the available scanning data, I could only go up to 2161 : n1=46 and n2=2114.The first hicup comes at 1511 so there is no point in dealing...
Today, i rewrite a code of ambient light of arduino module applied FastLED library carefully. Why? there are 3 important thing, 1) the legacy code of adalight is based on SPI that is used by a RF module too. I think move pin in code of adalight from...