A smart engineer…
A smart engineer can intuitively design something that will work well, but a good engineer will always back up his design with analysis and testing. […]
Continue reading »Month: July 2013
Send data over RF to Excel
One of the perks of telemetry systems is the ability to gather essential performance data remotely, no wires attached. If a F1 car mounts about […]
Continue reading »Amateur Rocketry. The Timer0 Module
The Timer0 is one of the three built-in timers inside a PIC18 microcontroller. According to the Datasheet, the Timer0 module incorporates the following features: Software […]
Continue reading »First hands-on with I2C
I2C, as defined by Wikipedia, is a multimaster serial single-ended computer bus invented by Philips used for attaching low-speed peripherals to a motherboard, embedded system, cellphone, or […]
Continue reading »Amateur Rocketry. Choosing a pressure sensor for altitude estimation
For this project we will start by measuring pressure and consequently get an estimation of the altitude of the rocket. We need something cheap and […]
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