MEP EP#219: Virtual Earth Mixers
Parker
- Brewery Update
- Still bending tubes
- 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
