Maker Faire Rome – Europe’s Greatest Innovation Event
Being an engineer has many advantages. One of them is to be able to think about problems, think of a solution, and then end up making them. The joy of[…]
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Using Relay Boards to Control Linear Actuators
Linear actuators are mechanical devices that transform energy to create straight line motions. A relay, on the other hand, is a switch whose operations are electrical. This article teaches users[…]
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Featured Kickstarter: Mirobot
Now here is a Kickstarter project close to home, and close to heart. A robotics project that is designed to inspire kids to learn both electronics and programming, and more[…]
Portable media players – Obsolete or just in need of a makeover?
At this point, you may be thinking, “Why did he call it a ‘portable media player’ in the title, rather than an MP3 player?” However, there’s a good reason behind[…]
Communicating between Arduino boards using I2C, Bus Extenders, and Isolation
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Requirement: To communicate between two Arduino Mega boards, about 7 meters apart, sending 6 bytes of data, and receiving 2 bytes of data back from the other board,[…]
Phase Shifted PWM from Arduino & TLC5940
Phase shifting is the process of shifting signals in TIME such that signals that would have been in sync originally, occur at a time / phase after the other. For[…]
Adjusting TLC5940 libraries to run different frequencies/values
To run the TLC5940 with any other values apart from the DEFAULT values, the tlc_config.h file requires to be changed. While it is easy to do so, it may cause[…]
USING TLC5940 TO GENERATE VARIABLE FREQUENCY PWM SIGNALS USING ARDUINO
Amazon.co.uk Widgets TLC5940 · The Texas Instruments TLC5940, http://www.ti.com/product/tlc5940, is a 16 Channel LED Driver which can be used to run up to 16 LEDs, at set PWM values. ·[…]
Arduino – Serial Communication
Amazon.co.uk Widgets The Arduino boards, and I believe this applies to all of them, even though I have used only two so far (the UNO and the MEGA), allow for[…]
Arduino: Out of sync PWMs
Follow up to my last article, here is an application which helps run out of sync PWMs. This only works on Arduino Mega, as it requires more control over timers.[…]
