By Bajdi on April 14, 2012
Played with a TCRT5000 sensor today. When I last tried these cheap little sensors I found out that they are very sensitive to ambient light. I always test my electronics on a breadboard, about a meter above it hangs a 40W halogen lamp. I got very different results when I turned of the lamp. So […]
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By Bajdi on April 13, 2012
Dagu Rover 5 remote control with nRF24L01 from Bajdi on Vimeo. I have updated my sketch to remote control the Rover 5. There were a couple of things I wanted to try out. The Dagu 4 channel motor controller I use is equipped with 4 current outputs. These outputs give a 0 to 5V signal, […]
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By Bajdi on April 10, 2012
Dagu Rover 5 in autonomous mode from Bajdi on Vimeo. Since my Rover 5 has 4 encoders I wanted to do something with these encoders. There is an encoder library for Arduino which makes it very easy to read the encoders. I first tried the example sketches that come with the library to check if […]
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