Current live

This page will serve as a todo list:

• render in iframe
• update iframe based on code entered
• code highlighting
• primitives in eisenscript rendered in three.js
• eisenscript transformations preformed in three.js
• local transformations
• eisenscript lines
  • primitives: box, sphere, wireframe
  • single transform group
  • multiple transform group
• eisenscript rules
  • rule order determined
• beginner interactive tutorial to eisenscript
• save and share scripts
• share creations, watermarked/linked

To do this properly it needs it’s own page, so find it on makerken.com/threejs

stemkoski has a great collection of examples showing off capabilities.

Arduino MKR1000

Blynk app

DRV8825 stepper driver

Blynk can send and receive data to internet devices using it’s free app. You can also host your own Blynk server for security.

To send an adjustable frequency from the Arduino to the DRV8825 I used the tone command, a square wave is perfect.

The tone command:
tone(pin, frequency)
tone(pin, frequency, duration)

calling it with 2 parameters the frequency is output once, I want the frequency to output continually so there needs to be a duration, but the longer the duration the less responsive it is. Measuring the speed of the loop can be done with a set/clear with a state = !state, while including Blynk.

I started with a the voltage off the microphone sampled and controlling which lights are on and off in the strip. Louder means that there is more variation in the strip. I have ‘machine learning’ (if you call one variable learning) so that it would still change on quieter music with smaller changes.

http://dpeckett.com/beat-detection-on-the-arduino

I built it. My dog water bowl sends an sms when it needs to be filled. I plan to make a proper guide. Used the Particle with power shield, and a IFTTT trigger to send an SMS. Very low power.

Archive of earlier ideas, possibly future work:

To detect absence of water, I’m thinking two wires that form a switch to ground, normally closed and you’d read 0 when there isn’t water you’d read 1, connected to an interrupt that can wake from sleep. How about a capacitive liquid level sensor, like the one I’d imagine is in the Pryme?

I’ll have to play with web hooks and see what integration will work, ideally something that alerts my phone. This could lead to integration to other things.

After a working prototype, there would be an effort to design something nice. The components I’ll use will be small already. How long power is provided should be alright with the interrupt, maybe instead of LiPo, I’ll use 4x 1.2V Eneloop batteries that would probably last longer and be safer.

This would be a good project for the Oaks I haven’t used. I got them not really knowing much, but know I know they were an early (at least when I got them) ESP8266 board. I’ve already worked with other Particle stuff so they use the same web IDE I’m used to.

They seem to have straightforward timing based on a state machine. It seems like there is a library I can start with.

Any idea on how Oscilloscope rating relates to time divisions?

I have the Electron working logging temperature and humidity.

Current build:
250mm quadcopter frame
25560 battery holder
12A ESC
EMAX MT2204 motors 2 x CW and 2 x CCW, the opposite sides are spinning the same way.
I have some SR-HC04 ultrasonics and got distance but not a stable flight using a different micro.

1. Assumption, common RC timing is 50Hz:
   1 sec / 50 Hz = 0.020 second = 20ms period
   it is controlled with 1ms (1/20) low and 2ms(2/20) high
   ESC and digital servo timing is 300Hz
   1 sec / 300 Hz = 0.00333 seconds = 3.33ms period
   it is controlled with 0.166ms (1/20) low and 0.333ms(2/20) high
2. Digital Servo control and timing is the same 300Hz the more frequently it updates, the more responsive it can be.
3. Test at 300Hz with buttons to increase and decrease. Test at other frequencies, but it will not be under load they heat up using frequencies not supported, that would be worse under load.

PancakeBot

Once I had control of a simple shape I would implement use an open source firmware to control motion, and investigate more on the software to allow user text or drawings to be ‘printed.’

So far:
I have used my CNC more to make the stepper mounts and the wood blocks.
I made a C++ header with a class for the DVR8825 module.
Constructed a two rail gantry out of 10mm drill rod and linear bearings, used GT2 timing belt with 30 teeth on the stepper and a pair of fanged bearings on the other side.

A scoreboard made of a 7-segment LED strip and two sensors to see if the ball had gone through or just come close to the hoop.

Current build:
One sensor
4x 20 LED strips
6x 10 LED strips

Currently segment 7 of the second digit isn’t working. I’m writing a library so that a number is displayed using the LED strip.