Tag: ChibiOS

From ChibiOS to FreeRTOS

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2020-03-06

10:34

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While Marc and Xavier are stuck in a tedious FH class, Vlaya and I have decided to work on the SD card. Our goal is to upload animations to the SD card (the same animations on each Phyllo). The Phyllos agree thanks to a discussion over Wifi on an animation identifiant and to start the animation at a chosen time (as you may remember, the Phyllos have a common time reference). Then each Phyllo will search the SD card for the desired animation and send it to the LEDs.

We started to read ChibiOS and STM32H7 documentation about SD card and SDC Driver, but soon, we discovered that on the last ChibiOS stable version (19.1.3)… Read more

Out of the shell

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2020-02-06

16:26

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At last the shell is running satisfyingly. Finishing it, I had two last problems. The first one is because Ubuntu finishes its lines with a lone line feed whereas the ChibiOS shell expects a carriage return before it. When it does not get it, it does not reply.

The second problem was that the shell not only returns feedback on the command, it also echoes the command itself. Which is then printed a second time to the user. I did not find another way around this that simply comparing the response to the answer and only print the different part. This may lead to some concurrency issues since the thread receiving the responses is different than the one sending them but even if we sometimes cannot wait to send a new command, at worst we will get the first command printed twice instead of once which is not very important.… Read more

STM32 : 1, ESP32 : 0

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2020-02-03

22:52

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Since Friday, I’ve been working on DShot generation with Xavier. As explained in his last post , we wanted to use only an ESP32 on the bottom PCB. 

First try of DShot with an ESP32

So last Friday we tried generating DShot with an ESP32 DevkitC and starting our motor with it.

After familiarising ourselves with the ESP API reference, we managed to generate a DShot signal on the SPI bus of the ESP32 using DMA. The idea is to send a DShot bit as an 8-bit SPI frame with the first 3 bits high to send a 0 and the 6 first bits high to send a 1, as explained in this post.… Read more