Hello UAV world
My UAV project has taken its first steps. I got the Atmega16 microcontroller last week, and set about doing the hardware equivalent of “hello, world”, which involves flashing an LED off and on. I...
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Tim‘s friend Tony Cole wrote this list of various microcontrollers and what they’re suitable for. It’s really interesting .. much more useful than a dry list of technical specs. So, many thanks to Tony...
View ArticleUAV talks serial
I’ve managed to get the Atmega16 chip talking to my PC over an RS232 serial link. The Atmega has a built in UART, which makes serial comms easy. You just write the data you want to send into a register...
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Flies with eyes
After being waylaid a bit by stomach bugs, I got a lot more hardware stuff working over the last two days. I got my ultrasonic range finder board wired up to the main microcontroller. It figures out...
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