!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! Hi folks, today I’ll show a simple project I realised for Valentine’s day for my girlfriend. The main purpose is using Arduino Uno to build a small ambient lamp which changes LED colours depending on light intensity. I have simply adopted few 10mm RGB LEDs, an Arduino…
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Hi everybody, the purpose of this post is to explain a simple technique concerning LED fading. One common issue in fading a LED is blocking the execution of the loop() in a for loop as long as it performs the fading. This approach wastes a lot of resources since the microcontroller can only perform this action…
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Thanks to Zoe Romano (Digital Strategy and Wearables @ Arduino) Comelicottero Team had the opportunity to explain their quadcopter project to the enthusiastic audience of the WeMake makerspace fablab ! Comelicottero quadcopter developed by Andrea Toscano, Simone Castellani and Giovanni Intorre at Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI) – Informatica Magistrale
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Comelicottero quadcopter Project will be soon available on www.arduino.cc‘s Forum. Some tutorials will be provided in order to set up Comelicottero’s firmware on Yun and the Ground Station on the personal computer. See Arduino Blog for further info: http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/06/08/building-a-quadcopter-running-on-arduino-yun/ Comelicottero developed by: Andrea Toscano, Giovanni Intorre, Simone Castellani. Andrea’s Supervisor: Prof. Federico Pedersini Università degli…
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400Hz PWM on Atmega32u4 for multirotors (without using Servo Library)
!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! The main issue using the Servo Library is that you can hardly go faster than 125Hz, with a huge amount of interrupts generated. I use instead 16bit Timer1 and Timer3 to generate PWM signals @400Hz on 4 pins (up to 6 pins). No interrupts are required….
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U-Blox Neo M8N U-Center configuration and Arduino parser sketch
!! U-Blox Neo M8N configuration file and Arduino sketch available on my gitHub toskyRocker account !! Today I’ll explain how to configure the outstanding U-Blox Neo M8N GPS/GLONASS receiver for multirotors usage. Introduction to the U-Blox Neo M8N Why this receiver? Well, the answer is pretty simple: it’s one of the best receivers you can…
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!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! Many of us, Arduino lovers, want to get rid of the Bridge library, due to its lame performance, it’s slow and heavy. A simple way to avoid this problem is to replace the Bridge library (Atmega side) with a python script (Atheros side) that redirects the…
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