Epoxi glueing
Mecanics progress
I'm not very experient (understatment) with mecanics, today I beleive I made some huge progress by bending a small piece of aluminium. I still have to glue the solar panel and make some kind of waterproof arrangement for the duck engine.
Mecanics
Sensor updating
I programmed one of my old msp430f2013 and had quite some problems with the output levels.
The low level did not reach below 0.8 volts.
I discovered the cure was not to enable pullups on the outputs.
I have been living with this error for 3-4 years.
The low level did not reach below 0.8 volts.
I discovered the cure was not to enable pullups on the outputs.
I have been living with this error for 3-4 years.
Tiny soldering
The Duck movie
The duck and some thoughts
I first thought I needed some extra drive to run the tiny engine.
But after reading the data sheet for the CPU it seeems like I can drive straight from the ports.
I will make a try.
But after reading the data sheet for the CPU it seeems like I can drive straight from the ports.
I will make a try.
The duck
The bathing duck boating computer
I have started the bathing duck project with a small notebook from the hause of Freud.
It has gotten a bit further from the total confusion state.
I beleive I will be the world leader in bathing duck computers shortly.
It has gotten a bit further from the total confusion state.
I beleive I will be the world leader in bathing duck computers shortly.
Freud inspiration
Some tiny progress
Some tiny progress on the web interface has been made, it seems fun though.
Web interface
Some minor progress
I tried the button example wich worked fine. My application will probably want the data to go in the other direction so I will have to search for another example to modify.
The web button example
seems like I'm up and running
New hardware and a different interface
The sailboat is soon going up on land and I bougth some new hardware. It is a solar panel approx. 8 volt and 300 mA, a new waterproof Otterbox and a wifi development board from the OpenPicus project. At the moment I only have some vague ideas of what to do with it, I hope they will become clearer before christmas.
Some new stuff
Shooting in a ship
I managed to pick the position from the NMEA sentences from Garmin and return it as a ship, very happy about that. Then I started to play with the ships heading and made it rotate. In the beginning it was displayed ok but it seems like when the ship has rotated a lite to much Garmin will not consider it as a boat any longer.
AIS ship to Garmin
Zigbee on board
The Zigbee module is now mounted. I have had some small progress with running more than one serial routine by going back to the hard world of writing directly to the peripheral registers.
