Category: Electronica
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How to enable Motion Detection Interrupt on MPU6050.
The MPU6050 data sheet has a nice “marketing” section, claiming it has a DMP unit, and a couple of useful interrupts, among them a accelerometer event interrupt. However, how to actually use these features is not documented there. And I want to use the Motion Detection Interrupt (so I can put the host MCU to…
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Fine motor skills?
I did not know this was possible. The hollow core motors of a Cheerson CX-10 can actually be opened, and a new wire can be soldered to the brushes when the original one broke of. This started as a challenge, me stating it was impossible to open these motors without damaging them beyond repair and…
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Continued “data transmission whistle” experiment, more successful this time
Okay, what’s this about? Oona Räisänen challenged her readers to construct a whistle that could transmit data using FSK. And if one reads her challenge carefully it says “whistle”. Not “pea whistle“. Now THAT simplifies things a lot! A whistle design like this can be modified by inserting a magnet and wrapping a coil around…
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(Failed) Pea whistle experiment
Well, not really failed, since every result is a result. I just found a way how this does not work. Two in fact. Okay, what’s this about? Oona Räisänen challenged her readers to construct a whistle that could transmit data using FSK. So, I thought about replacing the pea in a pea whistle with a…
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ATX computer power supply current limit.
(This post is also available in Dutch) For another project I’m tinkering with an old computer power supply. While I’m at it, why not see if I can build some crude current limiting. It does not need to regulate the current neatly, as long as it is short circuit proof. A LED on the 12V…
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ATX voeding stroombegrenzing.
Ik ben voor een ander project wat aan het prutsen met een oude computervoeding. Nu ik toch aan het prutsen ben, eens kijken of er een simpele stroombegrenzing te klussen valt. Het hoeft geen nette stroomregeling te zijn, als het maar kortsluitvast is. Een LED op een uitgang van een computervoeding zal normaal gesproken onmiddellijk…
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Some short notes on the Lecroy9450 repair project
Because there is no big news yet, some short updates. – Claude Schwarz pointed me to the Yahoo user group “Lecroy Owners group”, they have design files for a HHZ406 replacement. (Made by Dieter Frieauff). So maybe the ext. trigger input can be repaired as well. – A service manual for this ‘scope (And others)…
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LeCroy 9450 oscilloscope repair
This was supposed to be an easy repair, and therefore not worth blogging about. But as it turns out, it might get interesting after all. (The ‘scope is not repaired yet) The “Leidse Makerspace” owns a LeCroy 9450 350Mhz DSO. When they moved to their new location I temporarily got this oscilloscope. Not just for…
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Quick and dirty Arduino optical mouse sensor experiment (a2620 chip)
I wanted to experiment with a optical mouse sensor, did a websearch, found this blogpost, and adapted the code for my A2620 mouse sensor. As it might be useful to others, below is my Arduino sketch and the processing sketch. Use the processing sketch to view the image from the sensor, or use a terminal…