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{ Monthly Archives } May 2007

NFX software Idea

A Matlab program to output a test tone and take the soundcard input from the output of the pedal to see what it does to the signal.
Cool bit of analysis software.
Phil

2007 05 28 philwinder Future Project Ideas
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ZBot V0.1a Update

Well Ive now got the IR obsticle detection pairs setup on some stripboard.  You can read about what Ive done here:
ZBot V0.1a Interim
Phil

2007 05 21 philwinder Projects
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FX Switcher

N.B. Resurrect the FX switcher project.

2007 05 15 philwinder Future Project Ideas Comments (0)

Thinking about new EFPD design

Had the presentation today, went well.
More thoughts about the new circuit. Been looking at the low power side this afternoon, found a small CR2032 is a great sized battery at 20mm diameter and it does quite well at 220mAh. [1298246 FEC]
But I dont think that would be very good as a system. As [...]

2007 05 14 philwinder EFPD Comments (0)

ZBot Mini Report

Ive completed a very quick mini-report for my investigation into the ZBot Prototype V0.1.
ZBot V0.1 Report
[For some reason the pdf crashes my adobe reader when opened in the browser. If it does, just download it. It works fine.]
Phil

2007 05 13 philwinder ZBot Comments (0)

First Incarnation of the ZBot

Well Ive spent today getting a simple bot going, and its working ok(ish) on the breadboard, so Im now going to transfer the IR’s to stripboard and then the rest of the bot to something.

2007 05 10 philwinder ZBot Comments (0)

ZBot IR

Got the 2 IR working.  Bit of a pain in the bum in the fact that its, once again, not mega reliable with triggors at random moments and sensitivity to flourecent lights and sunlight etc.
Now Im going to get the motor working like before with the following circuit:

taken from here.
The code is already written in [...]

2007 05 10 philwinder ZBot Comments (0)

Project Ideas

USB ECG
Miniture Camera with Digital Storage
Home Lighting Control
Speech FFT Fountain
Messing with the TI DSP Kit
Two speaker Intercom from AmatureLogic.tv

2007 05 08 philwinder Future Project Ideas Comments (0)