This week’s lab covered working with a motor.
In class Tom went over the principle of inductance. I will post more on these notes later.
For now here’s a quick update on the lab.
I had already had experience wiring up a simple transistor/diode/motor combo using the TIP120 when we worked on our Plushy project. For […]
The first night that I worked on this lab, I was stuck for a while not being able to get any proper outputs to hyperterminal. No values whatsoever. The first thing that Todd H. noticed when looking over my board was that I had my input switch wired backwards. I think for […]
Analog Out.
By connecting a serial cable from the PIC, we are able to have the PIC communicate with the PC (this will come in handy later on). There is a program called hyperterminal, which we were introduced to, in last week’s lab that aids us in debugging and reading the analog in values from […]
Analog signals are ones that are gradual as opposed to discrete (digital). In the simplest words that I can understand it is that one can think of a light switch (on/off) as being a digital system, where as a light dimmer (on/off/low/high/) as an analog one.
The usefulness and the trickiness of interfacing […]