Questions tagged [microcontroller]
A small computer on a single integrated circuit containing a processor core, memory, and programmable input/output peripherals.
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What are the signs that a servo might be broken?
I just got a kit and im not sure if its me or not but it appears one of the continuous servos might be broken. What happened first when I plugged it into the microcontroller, it made a humming sound ...
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How can I create a robot like the EZ-B using a regular Arduino?
I am interested in building a robot like the EZ-B, sold by ez-robot.com. It comes with an SDK for Visual Studio and has direct scripting in runtime through a USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, IRC or HTTPS ...
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creating a robot from ez-b or regular arduino [duplicate]
Does anyone have experience with this ez-b, it is sold by ez-robot.com and comes with an SDK for Visual Studio
It has direct scripting in runtime and through usb or bluetooth, wifi, irc, https
My ...
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Connecting More Than Six Analog Input Pins to arduino
I'm in the planning stages for a project using the Arduino Uno to control 8 distance sensors, and have run into a little road block, the Uno only has six input pins. So I'm wondering, is there any way ...
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How do I adjust objects on a conveyor belt into the proper orientation?
This is part two of my larger robot, it follows up what happens with the small rocks here: What kind of sensor do i need for knowing that something is placed at a position?
Now i am taking the rocks ...
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What is the wire used for hand movement of robot called ? where can I find it online ?
I am looking for a specific name of the wire used for the robotic arm movement control and where can I find some of this online. I want to control it using the micro controller so please suggest some ...
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How can I calculate processing speed of microcontroller
I need a microcontroller that can process minimum 2mb data per second.
How do I determine what processors will be able to do this?
Also how can I calculate the processing speed in per second of any ...
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What microcontroller should be used for QuadCopter flight control and ESC? [closed]
I am working on building my own quadcopter from scratch. I noticed that many solutions available online use arduino, but I am not a fan of arduino. So my questions are: what microcontrollers should be ...
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Adding Rotary Encoders to an Electronic Wheel Chair
We have an electric wheel chair, and are looking to add a rotary encoder to each wheel. We don't want to hack the motor itself, so want to add the encoder without harming the motor-to-wheel ...
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Arduino Motor control
I'm working on a rather low budget project, and need some way to control four or more motors using one Arduino. I've looked at motor shields a little, but I have a shield on top of it already, It does ...
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Simple Neural Network with hardcoded positions for walk optimisation
I'm building a quadrupedal robot that will learn how to walk. From the responses I got from asking if its possible to run a NN on a micro controller I realised I needed to think of a clever system ...
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Inter-processor communication for robotic arm
I'm building a hobby 6-DOF robotic arm and am wondering what the best way is to communicate between the processors (3-4 AVRs, 18 inches max separation). I'd like to have the control loop run on the ...
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Good method for building a pan and tilt controller?
Have you ever seen one those video games that has headset/goggles you stand in and look around the virtual scene with? I'm building one of those, and I'm trying to design a simple controller. I need ...
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Quadruped Learning Simulator
I'm currently building a robot with four legs (quadruped), 3 DOF (Degrees of Freedom) and Its been suggested here that I use a simulator to do the learning on a computer and then upload the algorithms ...
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Is it possible to run a neural network on a microcontroller
Could you implement a simple neural network on a microprocessor such as the Arduino Uno to be used in machine learning?
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Questions about quadcopter and radio controller
I have not bought any parts yet, but I am making my own quadcopter. I have done the research and know all about the parts that I need, but many guides are sponsored and cost thousand(s) of euros/...
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Learning Algorithms for Walking Quadruped
I'm building a 4 legged robot (quadruped) with 3 Degrees of freedom per leg.
The goal of my project is to make this robot able to learn how to walk.
What learning algorithms will I need to implement ...
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How to calculate serial speed and buffer requirements for PC to microcontroller communications?
A common scenario is to have a PC that sends commands to a microcontroller via RS232. My PC program is sending commands (each of which are composed of multiple bytes) as fast as it can to a small ...
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Starting out advice on making robots and tinkering with microcontrollers [closed]
I'd like to start making robots and tinkering with microcontrollers. Where do I start, and what do I need?
I'd like to make my own robots. I'm comfortable with programming (assembly and C) so I've ...
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Fixed point arithmetic on microcontrollers
Often we use microcontrollers to do things in our robots, but need to make some calculations in decimal. Using floating point variables is very slow, because a software floating point library is ...
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Connecting two microcontrollers using I2C [closed]
I Have an ATmega16 mc which is master on the i2c and a ATMega8 mc which is slave on the i2c.
I have connected the two mcs' sda and scl ports to each other alongside a pullup resistor.
Now I want to ...
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How to manage interrupts on an AVR?
I have a number of interrupt service routines on an AVR. These include interrupts for USART serial communication, timers, and SPI communication.
For all of these, I use circular queues (using a start ...
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Developing for 8-bit AVR-s, what are the current, open and free libraries out there? [closed]
I would be very interested to ask for a list of repos of free open code, applicable to 8-bit avr-s and having relation to robotics - object avoidance, process controllers, battery management, etc. ...
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Good Microcontrollers/SOCs for a Robotics Project [closed]
I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here ...
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