el3ktr1k

el3ktr1k

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    Dimming function

    I currently have a system with 10 bulbs at 150 W each. They run on 28 V (max). A variac steps down...

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    31ddf03c-fbfa-41c5-aa1d-fc978e448ec3

    Some people have done a similar thing on a smaller scale with an iphone and RC car.

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    Electronic Compass

    I have a small remotely controlled vehicle and I want it to be able to determine its orientation. Can someone recommend some...

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    Programmer Communication Problems

    I'm having trouble getting my MPLAB to establish a connection with my programmer. I have a MPLAB ICD module with a serial...

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    DC Motor Selection

    I'm trying to build a remote control submarine and I need some help in selecting an appropriate DC motor. I'm not a...

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    9ff5a4a3-36f0-4d43-81a1-8b326751e54a

    Ok thanks. I think I'll have the casing made as thin as possible and see if that works.

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    Getting Sonar sensor to work under water

    I wanted to be able to use a sonar sensor such as this: #-Link-Snipped-# but I'm not sure how I would get...

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    Position Control

    I figured out before how to control the speed of a motor through a microcontroller by varying the duty cycle of a...

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    cd8507c7-1631-4ee4-8a66-08cd44629e5d

    thanks. I'll look for a motor with low inductance since lowering the PWM frequency isn't really an option.

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    PWM frequency

    I plan on getting a motor and controlling it with pulse width modulation. I noticed some motors don't function that well when...

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    9589b59a-e236-4253-8ca1-faf6f2e8182b

    I know how to connect to the internet. I want to be able to send raw data from one computer to another...

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    LAN Communication

    Can someone explain to me how I can communicate with another computer over a wireless LAN network. Suppose I want send a...

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    827bffa6-f384-4b9b-bf3e-38f57bf91af9

    Yes I was doing this in assembly. I got the microcontroller to control motors without any feedback but now that I need...

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    Multiplying in a microcontroller

    I'm doing a project with a PIC16F877 and I was wondering how I can multiply by a decimal number. Suppose for example...

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    Encoder Scale

    I'm still having some trouble understanding the scale that my encoder uses. The datasheet for the encoder is found at this website:...

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    f8f6d7dc-6b5c-45a9-b45f-e4c8126de274

    I'm still having trouble getting the PIC to work after following your diagram. I connected pins 11 and 32 to +5V like...

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    bcc76f9d-c618-4472-90e8-30d19a2571b8

    I think I figured out what I was doing wrong. I noticed on the programmer board there was a jumper wire that...

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    f61d3f07-987a-4818-9375-53c87ebe27be

    I think I may have the the wrong configuration for the type of oscillator that I'm using. This what I have in...

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    e9e79d7d-8709-44ce-8bd7-428132c07b6c

    I am using Matlab to send to the data the serial port and I have loaded the loaded the code to the...

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    e5baa54a-a231-4ccd-8fe3-0088bb7cfcc4

    There must still be something I'm doing wrong since I still can't figure out to get the microcontroller to communicate with my...

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    0beacb3b-9552-45b1-bf3a-3619617f2cbb

    Re: Encoder data: How to interpret encoder data from a motor going into the PIC16F877 Is the encoder continuously sending data and...

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    Encoder data: How to interpret encoder data from a motor going into the PIC16F877?

    I'm not sure exactly how to interpret encoder data from a motor going into the PIC16F877. From the data sheet it looks...

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    3a1d427d-f2f0-48a0-b7ad-23de3691ed4e

    Thank you Ash. I plan on using the PIC16F877 by Microchip. I looked at the data sheet and found the information about...

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    9390516e-136e-436a-83be-1bf03823204e

    I still don't understand how the PIC is able to capture serial data and store it somewhere in memory. For example if...

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    Reading in Data using a microcontroller

    I'm not sure how digital serial input is read into the PIC. This is how I would guess it's done. You have...