Following our article on how to design your own Arduino motor shield, we have written a companion piece that explains how to create your own Arduino library. Our explanation focuses on all the things that the beginner tutorials don’t cover. #Arduino #UNO #STEM #nexgencodecamp
https://reefwing.medium.com/how-to-create-your-own-arduino-library-540f833a49cf
The Nexgen Rover is an Arduino based robot designed wholly by Nexgen Codecamp. It is used in our technology related STEM courses aimed at high schools. The robot is based on Arduino technology and runs an Arduino UNO with a motor controller shield on top. This article explains how we designed and manufactured our own motor shield to suit the requirements of the rover. #arduino #stemeducation #uno #motor #shield #nexgen
https://reefwing.medium.com/designing-your-own-arduino-uno-motor-shield-ca507ab61f4b
The evolution of open-source flight control firmware is fascinating and involves everything from years of committed development with no reward, to convoluted betrayal from previous partners and friends. In this article, we will review the most popular open-source projects, explain their antecedents and highlight the survivors. #arduino #drone #development
https://reefwing.medium.com/a-review-of-open-source-flight-control-systems-2fe37239c9b6
Using an Arduino UNO to communicate with an Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) that uses BLHeli or BLHeli_S firmware. #Arduino #BLHeli #Drone #Tutorial https://reefwing.medium.com/configuring-an-esc-with-blheli-firmware-using-an-arduino-uno-9b8e5dafc1c5
We recently published a new article about writing your own flight controller software.
It is a reasonable question. There are a number of Open Source and proprietary quadcopter flight controllers with firmware available. The problem is we want to use an Arduino board, to fit in with our other training programs. As soon as this becomes a constraint your options are very limited. In fact, your only real option is to write your own. So here we are.
Initially we attempted to port BetaFlight across to the Arduino Portenta H7, as this is designed for STM32 hardware and we know that writing your own flight controller firmware is tough and time consuming. We managed to get BetaFlight to compile for the H7 but because Arduino’s use a custom bootloader which is located right where BetaFlight normally sits in memory, flashing the firmware was problematic.
You can read all about our drone design adventures.
Our MineSweeper HD game was relecently reviewed by GameKeys in their article on Underrated Simulation Games To Play on IOS.
Head over to the GameKeys site to see what they had to say about it.
In our latest article we talk about adding the DShot600 protocol to our ESC Tester. This is not straight forward because most Flight Controllers use DMA to generate the DShot packets and our ESC Tester is based on the Arduino UNO which doesn’t have DMA.
We try a few different approaches including bit banging and hacking SPI. Read on to find out what works (and what doesn’t). Full source code is provided.
You can read the full article and access the source code here.
A New Article by Reefwing Software on Medium – check it out: https://medium.com/@reefwing/creating-custom-sf-symbols-e295a2177aaf by @reefwing on @Medium
