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Buttons – and LEDs :D

by Martyn on April 4, 2009 · No Comments

Buttons are cool, so are menu’s. So with the help of a button, a few leds and a dspic I have a menu system (also note that this is blocking, the idea is that its used to start / stop the robot, so the robot does not move while the menu is active), first lets [...]

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Its must have been a good day for someone…

by Martyn on April 2, 2009 · No Comments

Today was a very unproductive one. Slept in, managed to do nothing till 2, then spend hours trying to work out why something had broken on my mouse – it was me, it was running 4 times slower because I put the line of code to tell it to run 4 times faster in the [...]

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Timering with DSPic’s

by Martyn on March 22, 2009 · No Comments

Timers on DSPics are easy – and after helping a few people out with timers at uni I thought I would post a really quick how-to on setting up a timer to interrupt at a set frequency. First lets start with a few bits you need to know: Fosc = 40000000; That’s it Just make [...]

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Micromouse has shrunk a bit…

by Martyn on October 19, 2008 · No Comments

A bit (lot) late, but I just noticed a video posted on youtube with a 1/2 size micromouse – Its tiny! Anyhow, I have been working on my mouse as it is also my 4th (and final) year project for my MEng Cybernetics degree. Been working on the motor housing and choosing the components for [...]

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Micromouse – Quadrature Decoders

by Martyn on April 26, 2008 · 2 Comments

I have started to develop the quadrature decoders for my mouse, a simple circuit and is mainly programming so its something I can do to break up exam revision. Here is a picture of the setup: The main board is an Explorer 16 with a 32 bit PIC microcontroller in there. I have the prototype [...]

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