Cantareus | March 6, 2010
I’ve mostly completed the y-axis now. Just got to do the x-axis and attach a tool and then a few touch ups.
I used the motor control and optical encoder stuff from my plotter to control it for the video.
Cantareus | January 31, 2010
This is my latest project. Converting a broken Brother MFC-425CN into a small plotter. I used the paper feed mechanism and the printer head with the optical encoders and stripped everything else out of the printer. There are a lot of gears and stuff that are used for cleaning the print heads and pumping away [...]
Cantareus | August 14, 2009
I’ve been trying to compile some usb examples for my little 18F2550 micro-controller for the last few days and now I’ve finally got it working. Here’s a few things to watch out for.
Don’t try and port mcc18 code to hitech’s pic18 compiler. I tried without any success even trying to use examples other people had [...]
Cantareus | October 28, 2008
I made my first microcontroller based robot over the weekend. It is far from finished. But it can drive around randomly. Getting something to move randomly was harder than it should have been. I realised overnight that I don’t actually need a random number generator if I want it to appear to move randomly. I [...]
Cantareus | October 22, 2008
So I found an interesting competition yesterday. Write a program in LOLCode to find square roots. I’ve never heard of this programming language before. It looks like the sort of programming language I would write. It’s kinda fun to play with. Although I do have a headache now. I wrote a small program to find [...]