I took a trip to a junk yard this weekend and got a bunch of awesome stuff!
All for $30!
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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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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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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:
Beat Tracking Windshield Wipers
If you were alive in the late 90s, you probably remember this iconic commercial for the Jetta:
My goal for this next project is to make that happen in real life. Well...just the windshield wiper part. Continue reading