built to last

Still a good population of homeless tho, some improvements but no real employers except the usual - a shrinking population of coal barons clinging to the old ways, their lawyers, bankers, doctors - and lots of unions.

Happens about every morning, like today.

happy accidents we love - these Meta glasses are a pretty transparent corporate effort to keep the content creators pics coming to sell ads against :) I've noticed a marked drop off in interesting yt content just in the last few months. Have always been dissapointed in the recommender system here and still enjoy digging deep for interesting stuff in what must be trillions of homemade videos by now.

pretty cool

This is all hw and sw from bitcraze.io - altho they appear to be winding down? Not sure, most vendors show "out of stock" for the cf21 and I'm using cf20 specials from ebay - that, plus a flow deck and the usb dongle add up. The crazyflie ecosystem is really nicely developed and works well. Not sure what alternatives there are.

Nope, no life advice here :)

This surplus camera az/el device turned out no where near strong enough to swing a good antenna. Even a tiny UHF made from wood and light hollow aluminum rods barely worked :) Just not enough torque. I have another one with gearmotors and servo feedback that was the final working rotator for a nice big quad uhf beam.

This is the only one thing I'm afraid of - the torque... I use the same nema engines like you and I think I will have to deal with the torue problem too

Thanks - it's a basic raspberry pi camera and using the software raspi-cam-srv.

You are correct on all counts :) This camera mount would barely work with the smallest, lightest UHF antenna I could make out of hollow aluminum tubes and lightweight wood ruler. I have a later video of a much better rotator using dc gear motors in a servo arrangement with feedback pots. That one can swing a hefty x-quad UHF array.

Here is the code gist.github.com/cswiger/2580f4975c18c77e7c7917e00f709bf1 that is a hack of this github.com/craigpeacock/CAN-Examples and is pretty low level bit flipping.

it was - sorry just testing (or "trsting") trying to get an insta360 camera view inside a Meta Quest3 and this is only way I know - the lag is terrible however - would prefer to use a local nginx host with rtmp / rtsp or something - but I cannot find any apps that will stream rtmp in Q3, only DLNA in SkyBox.

@@ChuckSwiger impressive

D-limonine was purchased from Home Depot , 32 oz. 100% Natural Tech Grade D-Limonene -- they had to ship to store - this is useful for all kinds of cleaning, and is the basis for lots of green citrus cleaners. www.homedepot.com/p/Eco-Clean-32-oz-100-Natural-Tech-Grade-D-Limonene-DL1000-32OZ/306067753

That is a better question for the AI :) chat.openai.com/share/b384df8a-f00d-49bf-87dd-48b55fa20ce6

​@@ChuckSwigerActually, take this solution, dissolve enough polystyrene in it while also keeping it in a water-like viscosity, and then take an atomiser and spray it

@@thelocal-spider9623 do you need acetone with this d-limonene? i'm thinking to just use this as the solvent and not acetone since that is more toxic.

Yes the project is still on the workbench so drew up this swigerco.com/RCStepperCircuit.jpg It is fairly straightforward - whichever channel of the R/C receiver you want to follow, connect to Pin 4 of the Arduino Pro Mini 3.3v 8Mhz board, and tie a ground to them also. Pin 10 of the pro mini connects to the STEP input of the easydriver and Pin 9 to the DIRECTION input, and the motor to the board outputs. This uses the easydriver to regulate the 12v battery down to 5V which powers the raw input of the pro mini and uses the regulator on that to get it's 3v3. Ground is common to all three boards and the 12v battery negative. The easydriver has a pot for setting the motor current - high enough to get good traction without slipping but not so high the motor runs hot. Also see projecthub.arduino.cc/kelvineyeone/113bac48-77c6-419b-99e5-287275e4251a for more detailed instructions.

The camera AZ/EL mount came with stepping motors from the surplus store, it was made for the NEMA size and just use regular metric scriews. It was a surplus broken camera az/el latform from Mendelsons in Dayton which is now closed for business. The idea was to point an antenna at satellites which this turned out to be way too under-powered for even the lightest UHF antenna :)

@Chuck Swiger I was thinking about useing the same type of setup for some 5.8 ghz antennas for fpv drone not nearly as heavy as heavy as beam antennas

Sounds good - I had to take it to a local shop and now it is running fine - storing it in a better place now!

These are the sources I used : wein bridge osc www.electronics-tutorials.ws/oscillator/wien_bridge.html phase shifter: www.homemade-circuits.com/three-phase-signal-generator-circuit/amp/ One quad LM324 and this for the split power supply tangentsoft.net/elec/vgrounds.html

@@ChuckSwiger THANKS!

I freaked out when it actually started working. A 115v 3phase inverter would be better solution but can't justify the expenditure just to do this :)

Measurement of the output angle isn't the problem here, I think, because the controller knows exactly how many steps it has sent, and that precisely determines how many angular steps the motor has taken (as long as the steps aren't sent too quickly). However, you do need a way to reset the motor to a known position. A magnetic encoder would work for that, but it seems like overkill. Limit switches are typically used. However measurement of the PWM signal seems to be what's causing the jitter here. Maybe the raw PWM signal is jittery itself, or the arduino code isn't doing a great job of measuring it.

@@yeroca because i want to make servo from stepper sir, posible to. Controlfrom pwm