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Category Archives: Beat Tracking Windshield Wipers
Achievement Unlocked!
If I Wanted My Feed Back, I Would have…nevermind
So, using my newly scavenged motor, I set to work doing some firmware coding this weekend. Previously, my code simply took speed setting commands over serial and implemented them on the motor driver. Now, it’s a little more intelligent.
Junkyard Score
I took a trip to a junk yard this weekend and got a bunch of awesome stuff!
All for $30!
Getting the Wipers Wet
I had a chance to test my wipers today under a myriad of conditions. Here are the results where the x axis is speed setting (lower is faster) and the y axis is seconds per cycle:
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The Importance of Not Bouncing
Testing my motor driver on my car’s wipers (and freezing my fingers off)
So I had a chance tonight to test out my motor driver “in the field”:
I was a little hasty because of the cold (and because my camera’s battery was dying), but I did collect some useful data. And a video!
Lighting my desk on fire with a pencil
How’s that for an eye-opening title? While you all were watching football this weekend, I made some progress on my wiper driver.
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Software Beat Tracking Because a Tap Tempo Button is Too Lazy
So, in my first post about the beat tracking, I decided that I would use a tap tempo button to set the frequency of wiper action. This would involve me hitting a button along to the beat of the song to program in the beat.
Over the weekend, one of my friends convinced me that that was too easy, and this project would only be cool if it was automatic. So I guess I’m making it automatic…
Doing Experiments On My Car in the Night and Scaring my Neighbors.
Before setting out to design a circuit to control my windshield wipers, I needed to do some research on what exactly I was up against. That would be this:
