Archive for category Electronic Projects

Accelerometer on Robot Finger

I helped attach an accelerometer to a robot at ISU, which has been featured on Discovery Channels show, Brink.

We used an adxl345 digital accelerometer with the breakout board from sparkfun.com, in addition to an arduino.
We used the I^2c wire arduino library. This was a temporary solution so that the research assistants can gather surface [...]

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Stepper Motor Controller

I finally got a stepper motor controller to work. The total time it took me to build this project was probably about 15-20 hours of trial and error over the course of the last two weeks. Note from circuit schematic: the final coil leads may not be in order. You will have to play around [...]