Electric Turbo Update!

Greetings!

So while I've been waiting for the custom electric motor; I've been playing with the current electric motor that I have in my person so I can perfect the control module. I have connected a Pot to the breadboard which will allow me to control how much power to send to the motor. I have also been playing with my current Arduino sketch to visually output how much power I'm sending to the electrical motor. I also decided to change the colors of the lights to optimize the feedback of power from the motor.

I must admit that I'm quite pleased with the results! I've also decided to use the vehicle's OBD-II port to send signals to the Arduino board instead of tapping in to the cars existing wires. This should simplify the installation as well as the sketch required to control the ESC.

On a side note, I will be developing a different sketch for those who have older cars.

Enjoy the video!

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Anglebrackets Conference

Greetings!

After having so much fun at the Dev Intersection hosted conference (AngleBrackets); I figured that I would absolutely dedicate more time to the blog!

That being said; I've been working on the electric turbo and will upload pictures of the progress so far. I've also added a couple of projects to my list of ideas which will also force me in to posting more about them.

Stay tuned! I'll have pictures and a video of the electric turbo soon! I will also talk a little bit more about the new projects as well as add more videos for the Telecommuting robot.

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Greetings!

Hello!

It's been a while since my last post but I figured I'd give some sign I'm still alive! So I've been working on a couple of projects lately and figured I'd let you know what I've been working on. But first! I'd like to say that I acknowledge this was supposed to be a coding blog but turned in to a project blog. Because of this, I am going to be creating a page within this blog full of code samples and will try to come up with some code related topics.

That being said, The project that I'm working on is an electric turbo! I'm grabbing a standard turbocharger from a car, and replacing the exhaust housing with an electric motor with gears to hopefully spin the compressor wheel at 200,000 RPM.

I'll add this project to the list and will post pictures as I go through the project.

On a side note, I purchased a 3D printer and have been slightly distracted as I am modeling and printing my own parts. I'll have updates soon!

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It's be a while!

I haven't posted in a long time but I figured I'd post one of my recent ideas. I'm currently in the process of building a robot from scratch and I realized that what we need is an operating for robots. Now i'm not talking about a linux distro.. I'm talking a new operating system created from scratch that would be better suited for the integration of arduino devices and controllers.. I'll add this to my list of ideas, It definitely couldn't hurt!

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Unity3d start

Greetings!

Nothing much to post today except for my new found interest in Unity3d and Blender. I'll probably be learning this just so I can have a little bit of modeling experience. It definitely can't hurt right?

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Greetings!

Greetings!

This is my first post in a long line of posts. This blog is going to be about any code I write and interesting methods I find out on the web. I will even post up snippets and Ideas I come about in hopes that it helps the community.

I will post back soon!

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