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Make Life Accessible - Clear Walk - Flex Coupler - blog 12

dougw

The drive train from motor to sprocket is finally approaching a viable solution. This installment adds a flex coupler to allow some eccenctricity between shafts and minimize any resulting vibration.players.brightcove.net/.../index.htmlIt is getting c...
- 12 Jun 2016
Make Life Accessible - Clear Walk - Drive Train - blog 11

dougw

Still plugging away at getting the gear box aligned with the motor. I can sometimes get them lined up pretty well, but every time I make a tweak to try to improve it, it most often gets worse.The video below shows significant misalignment, but it is ...
- 11 Jun 2016
EyePrints - Post 13 - KDS Project

amgalbu

Previous postsPost 1 - Introduction Post 2 - Installing OpenCV - Prerequisites Post 3 - Installing OpenCV Post 4 - Installing Pygaze Post 5 - Installing eye tracker Post 6 - SPI communication Post 7 - SPI communication in Python EyeLiner - Post 8 - Getting ...
- 10 Jun 2016
EyePrints - Post 12 - Getting started with the kit

amgalbu

Previous postsPost 1 - Introduction Post 2 - Installing OpenCV - Prerequisites Post 3 - Installing OpenCV Post 4 - Installing Pygaze Post 5 - Installing eye tracker Post 6 - SPI communication Post 7 - SPI communication in Python EyeLiner - Post 8 - Getting ...
- 10 Jun 2016
Smart storage - Blog 5 - Gearing up for the big build

grahamwebberjhb

I am assuming the judges main criteria is awesome blog titles. So I have had a little more luck with the build on the mechanical side though I warm you after that whole CD gear idea, everything seems to have taken a left turn into Recyclaville. ...
- 8 Jun 2016
Smart Storage - blog 4 - some failures

grahamwebberjhb

First impressions on getting started with the Motor controller has been poor, I give it 4 out of 10. here are a couple of the reasons: First thing I did when I opened the dev board box was look at the quick start pamphlet which did not have...
- 8 Jun 2016
Make Life Accessible - Clear Walk Motor Gearing - blog 10

dougw

I have been spending entirely too much time trying to get the drive train to be functional, but I still need to devote some time to describing what I have been up to. The Linix motor is great - lots of power, but it runs between 300 and 4000 rpm. I n...
- 5 Jun 2016
Design Challenge Project Summary #19: ELapShelf **Final Update**

CharlesGantt

Welcome to installment number 19 of the Design Challenge Project Summary series here at Element14. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series I will pick a single Design Challenge project from the current challenge, and write a short ...
- 2 Jun 2016
Design Challenge Weekly Summary: Week Ending May 29, 2016

CharlesGantt

Welcome to week 22 of the Design Challenge series here at Element14! This week is all about the Make Life Accessible Design Challenge which is in its fifth week of competition. There is a lot of progress being made across several projects, and it’s s...
- 1 Jun 2016
Make Life Accessible - Clear Walk Stand - blog 9

dougw

This blog shows the result of a lot of pondering what materials to use to make a sturdy low-cost stand to support the rotating mirror apparatus, a lot of design and pondering how to build a suitable structure given my tools and resources, and some me...
- 1 Jun 2016
Make Life Accessible - ELapShelf - More gears

rsc

Last week was a busy one, not much time to work on the ELapShelf project.I found a nice gear set from an old printer that should work for the shelf control.The small gear shaft was smaller than the shaft on the kit motor however, so I had to make a n...
- 31 May 2016
Step Three: 3 New Challenge by the Motor

fyaocn

1. It is great that Design Pack of FRDM-KV31 is arrived finally. While, new challenge comes.First, the name order of motor is unknown. From the nameplate, ZWN45 by LINIX is shown. But this series seems out of stock from LINIX and replaced by ZWN40 an...
- 31 May 2016
Make Life Accessible - Motor Suite Test - blog 8

dougw

This entry is a first exploration of the Kinetis Motor Suite capabilities, demonstrating motor reversing and sequencing through several states.players.brightcove.net/.../index.htmlNext time I will try to hook up the Hall effect sensors to see if I ca...
- 29 May 2016
Design Challenge Weekly Summary: Week Ending May 22, 2016

CharlesGantt

Welcome to week 21 of the Design Challenge series here at Element14! This week is all about the Make Life Accessible Design Challenge which is in its fifth week of competition. There is a lot of progress being made across several projects, and it’s s...
- 28 May 2016
Make Life Accessible - Initial Motor Test - blog 7

dougw

It took me about 33 hours to get the motor running, mostly because I had installed the latest version of Kinetis Design Studio (3.2) but it appears that Kinetis Motor Suite doesn't work with the latest KDS and it wasn't until I tried the older KDS3.0...
- 27 May 2016
GPS Voice Controlled Guiding Stick for Blind people #1: Introduction

Former Member

Short history:Blind people have used canes as mobility tools for centuries, but it was not until after World War I that the white cane was introduced. In 1921 James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol who became blind after an accident and was un...
- 25 May 2016
Make Life Accessible - NXP Motor Control Installation - blog 6

dougw

There is an extensive step-by-step tutorial series on getting started with the FRDM-KV31FFRDM-KV31F Development Platform here FRDM-KV31F|Freedom Development Platform|Kinetis MCU|NXPFollowing through the steps and installing all the software too...
- 22 May 2016
Project: Automated wake up machine - Post # 1 - Setting up my IDE

Anonymous-237891

Hello challengers and jury.You haven't heard about me since the beginning of the challenge and I would like to apologize about my late lack of content.But now I am available and I will do my best to keep the project going forward. What I hav...
- 21 May 2016
Design Challenge Project Summary #18: Project Eyeliner

CharlesGantt

Welcome to installment number 18 of the Design Challenge Project Summary series here at Element14. For those of you who are new to my content, in this series I will pick a single Design Challenge project from the past week’s updates, and write a shor...
- 21 May 2016
Design Challenge Weekly Summary: Week Ending May 15, 2016

CharlesGantt

Welcome to week 20 of the Design Challenge series here at Element14! This week is all about the Make Life Accessible Design Challenge which is in its fifth week of competition. There is a lot of progress being made across several projects, and it’s s...
- 18 May 2016
Smart Storage - Blog 3 - The money or the box (hint: there is no money)

grahamwebberjhb

To great ululations UPS delivered my parts today, I noticed some people received theirs a while back, I believe this is totally due to favoritism and has nothing to do with geographical location. Still though I am very greatful to the organizers...
- 17 May 2016
Make Life Accessible - Project Kit Unboxing - blog 5

dougw

The project kit of parts to be used in the Make Life Accessible design challenge has just arrived, so I made an unboxing video to show what came in the box:players.brightcove.net/.../index.html Next StepsI want to power up the BLDC m...
- 15 May 2016
Make Life Accessible - ELapShelf - Motor Control Test

rsc

To get the software part of this project going, I loaded the motor control demo program and KSDK into Kinetis Design Studio.My first challenge was to wire up the kit button board and to have the software adjust the motor speed using the arrow buttons...
- 13 May 2016
EyePrints - Post 11 - Eye tracker software

amgalbu

Previous postsPost 1 - Introduction Post 2 - Installing OpenCV - Prerequisites Post 3 - Installing OpenCV Post 4 - Installing Pygaze Post 5 - Installing eye tracker Post 6 - SPI communication Post 7 - SPI communication in Python EyeLiner - Post 8 - Getting ...
- 11 May 2016
Make Life Accessible - ELapShelf - Parts Kit is Here!

rsc

Got a nice box of parts in the mail today.I had to chuckle a bit at the random length of red wire.
- 10 May 2016