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Going cheap and buying a roll of stainless steel tubing was a mistake
Started looking into the Jeep Fan controller project again
Evolving into a Body control module
Investigating the best way to add wireless remote control?
Pinotaur LED REV2 design is completed
Using those APA-102C-NEW-260
Working on a motor controller add-on for the Pinotaur board
Socketed motor controllers allow stepper or DC motor control
Stephen
Rotary switches
Three datasheets and all are wrong…
VAAPA: Variable Architecture And Parameters Amplifier
CNC Update
Working on greater accuracy
Most cuts are within 0.005 but certain situations can make it up to 0.01
Got a O flute bit in.
Feeds and speeds
Analog tricks
Clipping opamp in feedback
Virtual earth mixer is no longer a virtual earth
Rapid Fire Opinion
Arrow Electronics launches European FPGA Developer Contest 2020
Entry via the Arrow European FPGA Developer Contest 2020 web page and choose from the following Intel FPGA development boards: MAX1000, CYC1000 or AnalogMAX /DAQ1/2/3
Projects can involve anything from software, special IPs/interfaces and soft cores, to board modifications, adapter creation, adding a PMOD/Arduino, creating an IoT device, and programming algorithms for AI/CNN