Category Archives: Projects

SUNDAR light sensor experiment

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

I have been sidelined for a very long time due to work. I have only had a few days off from work in the last 2 months. Makes working on my AVC robot difficult if not impossible. But I have … Continue reading →

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Interesting bugs

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

Over the last few months, I have been sending to my software group at work a puzzle/quiz in the form of a bug I have found in my robot code. They seem to get a kick out of especialy since … Continue reading →

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Data collection. 1 of n

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

Today I took my robot to my test area. I collected two battery packs worth of data. I am now begging the long process of analyzing 15 megabytes of binary log files. Oh Joy! No sarcasm here. I love data. … Continue reading →

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Long time no post

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

It has been a while since I last posted. A lot and a little has happened in the meantime. I went on vacation to London and had a great time, but I have not made a huge amount of progress … Continue reading →

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Major milestones fall!

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

Today I was able to check out a few major milestones today. The first is that I determined that I can indeed control the steering servo and ESC via the ARM processor. I was a bit worried that they would … Continue reading →

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LSM303 bug fixed!

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

After several very frustrating days, I have found the root cause of my bad readings. It was not in the sensor or in its setup. It was in fact the the TWI/I2C driver code that I took from the ATMEL … Continue reading →

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Woes with a LSM303DLHC

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

I have a Pololu 9 DOF IMU (version 2) that uses an LSM303DLLC for the magnetometer and accelerometer. With these two sensors you can create a tilt compensated compass. It was my plan to do exactly that to get heading … Continue reading →

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Agoraphobic robot

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

I have been frustrated by a problem with my robot. Each time I would go outside to test, the robot’s processor would hang. I tried various tactics in getting to the bottom of the problem. The real bummer was that … Continue reading →

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Slight pause in the development

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

The problem with being an embedded software engineer by day and doing prety much the same think at home is that you can get burned out. Not normaly an issue when work is slow or boring. But when you work … Continue reading →

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Writing to FLASH

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Skye Sweeney

You would think that writing to FLASH would not be such a big thing. But it took several days to accomplish. The first issue is that your reprogram code can’t live in the same FLASH as you want to program. With … Continue reading →

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