In Which I Begin to Lose My Mind
In my last post, I attempted to reverse engineer an EL wire power supply to see how it worked. This brought up a few more questions that I decided to investigate, and the following investigation brought me to the brink of insanity and back. I started to doubt the very consistency of space and time as time and time again my measurements seemed to prove what I knew should be impossible.
Seriously, ask any of my friends. I haven’t been able to shut up about this all week. Continue reading
EL Wire is Spanish for…The Wire
So, after making the shutter shades that made a sensation all over the web, I had a lot of left over electroluminescent wire, and decided to do something with it:
Boom! 100% safer!
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.