I finally received the banana connectors I needed to connect the motors (that ship with the male connectors already soldered) and the ESCs (sold without connectors): It’s quite easy to solder the connectors: first I slided some shrink tubing on each ESC wire: then, with the help of a third hand tool, I soldered the…
I’ve finally received the Quadrotor kit from RCTimer. This kit includes: [checklist] a class-450 quadrotor frame (clone of the DJI’s Flame Wheel F450) four 30A ESCs with SimonK firmware four brushless RCTimer 2830-1000KV motors four plastic propellers [/checklist] Unfortunately I didn’t realize reading the kit description on RCTimer website that the motors include the 3.5mm banana plugs but the ESC don’t;…
I ordered the Naza-M Lite from Bizmodel, an italian DJI reseller and therefore I received it few days after my order. The main task for a flight control board is to adjust the power of the motors in order to stabilize the quadricopter, reducing the unwanted movements (oscillations, rotations…). More advanced control boards, like the Naza ones, are also able to automatically maintain the…
I decided to build my first quadricopter (named 4ld): in these blog posts you can follow step-by-step the build log and (hopefully ;)) the flights. I’m not really an expert: you can learn with me reading my posts!
My latest project is a led matrix display, portable and controlled via Bluetooth from a PC or from an Android smartphone; I named it BlueMatrix. Here’s a short presentation video (non-italian guests: remember to enable english subtitles); in the next pages you’ll find some details about how it was made and how it works:
One of the most useful features of Arduino Yun is the ability to upload your sketches via network, directly from the IDE (as I explained in a previous tutorial). Arduino’s IDE uses the Bonjour protocol (running on port UDP 5353) to look for Yun boards on your network: this auto-discovery technique works fine in a local area…
All of you certainly had to configure an RTC chip with the current date and time… today’s project can help to perform that task!
Today I’m going to show you how to make an Arduino door lock that can be opened with an OTP code generated by your smartphone.
In different blog posts, I’ve already explained how to receive data from Arduino using a .Net application or a server-side script. Today I’m going to show you how it’s possible, using JavaScript, to receive and show data using only a Web browser.
My Nixie clock won’t have any visible buttons, so I chose to use a touch sensor, that signals to Arduino when the user touches the clock.