Category Archives: Projects

AVC obstacle avoidance

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

The SparkFun AVC competition requires that the robot avoid obstacles placed in its way. These take the form of red 55 gallon drums. So if it was not hard enough to navigate around the building, trying to avoid the barrels … Continue reading →

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AVC platform tests

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Today it stopped raining enough I was able to get the RC car outdoor to run. I was able to clock the car at 18 MPH. Fast enough to win at last year’s AVC, but not likely for 2012 and … Continue reading →

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AVC platform body

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I have had my eye on Craig’s List for severl months looking for a 1/10 scale RC car to use as the chassis for my 2013 AVC robot. Just recently a Traxxis Rustler came up for a reasonable price. Although … Continue reading →

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Sparkfun AVC

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I have always had a life goal of making a robot. As a kid I was going to make one from a child’s electric ride-in toy using 74 series logic from a book I had. Later I was going to … Continue reading →

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Unusual item for unusual project.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Years ago when living near Binghamton New York I used to visit a junk yard on a fairly regular basis. They would take in lots of surplus stuff from some of the big manufacturers in the area including IBM, Singer-Link, … Continue reading →

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Overdue system diagram for power monitor

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Here is the system diagram (pdf format) for my power monitor. It is currently version 1.0. I reserve the right to update it as I learn more! I am alos working on a detailed paper that describes the whole system. SystemDiagram

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Arduino code for PowerMeter using ADE7763

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

So here is the current version of the code. Not cleaned up yet, but it is functional. It does not include the code for the PIC processor needed only if you want to mux 30+ sensors into the one ADE. … Continue reading →

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The Eagle has landed

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I got in my shipment of spare parts to replace the one I smoked. After replacing the part, I ran a bunch of tests and let it run for 24 hours without any noticeable issues. So, its is time to … Continue reading →

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Magnetic compass

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

As I wait for replacement parts from Digikey (smoked a processor), I started to play with a magnetic compass. This unit has a serial interface. It took me quite a while to figure out/remember that you can’t connect a serial … Continue reading →

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Smoke

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Over the weekend I got the new power monitior system put down on a breadboard. I am using one Arduino and one ADE7763 on a “motherboard”. On small daughter boards I am putting down a small PIC processor and an … Continue reading →

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