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Racetronics: Acrylic Prototyping Board
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Sunday, June 6, 2010. So I've been working on my Kent Display driver but had a hardware connection failure between the female header pins on my Arduino and the male/female jumper wires. That Sparkfun sells. Turns out the connection is a little too loose and now I have to hold the jumpers sideways to get any communication to work and even then it is unreliable. So in the meantime while waiting for my ScrewShield. For tools you will just need a drill, bit, and maybe some pliers for the bolts. Open source h...
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Racetronics: Stuff Page
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This page is somewhere to store random stuff I wasn't sure where else to put. Here's a higher resolution version (click on it for max size) of my avatar if anyone would like to slap one on the side of their project! Anyone is free to distribute/use it in a open-source/open-hardware environment. People have been asking for pictures of my cars so I figured I'd post them here:. Credit on the mustang photos goes to one of my friends: http:/ www.corakemp.com/. You don't even want to know. Open source hardware...
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Racetronics: RGB LED Fun
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Sunday, May 23, 2010. Here's the first thing I programmed up with my new Arduino! I'm not new to Atmel μcontrollers but new to the Arduino) It's just a diffused RGB LED. That goes red-green-blue-yellow-purple-turquoiseish (last one was supposed to be white, got tired of fiddling with it). Figured I'd post the code since Sparkfun. Didn't have a link for an Arduino example, just the Wiring example. Int RED = 3; / RED pin of the LED to PWM pin 3. Int GREEN = 6; / GREEN pin of the LED to PWM pin 6. In the pi...
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Racetronics: Kent Display Driver
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Sunday, June 20, 2010. I finally managed to finish the basic interfacing of my 320x240 Ch LCD Kent Display. Hardware issues and work busyness have been slowing me down. For now it just includes the SPI. Functions from the datasheet. Next, I will be adding some higher level functions to draw, write text, etc. The biggest issue I encountered was getting a good connection between the Duemilanove pins and the breakout board. I ended up buying a Screw Shield. Here's a video of the test code in action! Evoluti...
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Racetronics: Raceduino Live!
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Sunday, May 30, 2010. Project concept has been posted! I mainly wanted to put an overview of the design together to try and capture all of the features that could ever be useful. Now it's time to start working on the individual stages of the project, starting with the Kent "No-Power" Display. That will be central to it. Next week I'll be posting basic display driver code based on the SPI commands listed in the Datasheet. Any other 'Duino based boards I should take a look at? A1 Code (Code for my projects).
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Racetronics: First Post
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Sunday, May 16, 2010. Kind of a placeholder first post, I'll be posting an Arduino test project later, but I had this "prayer" sitting around after stealing it from somewhere. and I get to link my mustang's first run with the 427! The Mustang is my shepherd;. I shall not want. It maketh me burnout on black pavements;. It leadeth me beside busy freeways;. It restoreth my soul;. It leads me in the path of quickness for its names sake. Thy rod and thy piston they comfort me. Thou preparest a track for me.
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Racetronics: Raceduino
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Presenting the Raceduino, a race controller for my 69 Mustang that will include RPM, time, acceleration, air/fuel ratio, exterior/interior temperature, and speed logging in addition to display of logged data, built-in practice tree, progressive nitrous control, nitrous bottle opener, purge and heater control, dial in indicator, and tachometer/shift light. Data logging similar to the Racepak Systems Sportsman. With the addition of speed, temperature and air/fuel ratio logging. Click on the image to get a ...
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Racetronics: May 2010
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Sunday, May 30, 2010. Project concept has been posted! I mainly wanted to put an overview of the design together to try and capture all of the features that could ever be useful. Now it's time to start working on the individual stages of the project, starting with the Kent "No-Power" Display. That will be central to it. Next week I'll be posting basic display driver code based on the SPI commands listed in the Datasheet. Any other 'Duino based boards I should take a look at? Sunday, May 23, 2010. AnalogW...
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Racetronics: June 2010
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Sunday, June 20, 2010. I finally managed to finish the basic interfacing of my 320x240 Ch LCD Kent Display. Hardware issues and work busyness have been slowing me down. For now it just includes the SPI. Functions from the datasheet. Next, I will be adding some higher level functions to draw, write text, etc. The biggest issue I encountered was getting a good connection between the Duemilanove pins and the breakout board. I ended up buying a Screw Shield. Here's a video of the test code in action! That Sp...
