Power – ROSE 2020

A solid foundation

2020-01-12

17:55

3D-printing, Architecture, Design, Mechanics, Phyllo, Power

Last week we met with Alain Croullebois, the go-to guy for mechanical questions at the school. We went to his workshop with the motor we received during the holidays : this Turnigy Multistar 4225-390Kv 16 Poles Multi-Rotor Outrunner. We discussed what the physical structure of the Phyllo could look like.

Here is a global diagram of what we came up with :

*The mechanical structure of the whole Phyllo*

The Base

For the base of our Phyllo, he suggested stacking two 30cmx30cm aluminium plates 8mm thick, with a separation of 6cm between the two plates maintained by 2cm wide pillars at each corner.… Read more

New Year, new skin

by malefsen

2020-01-09

17:57

New PCB disposition to drive the petals

We used to try to drive each LED with its own processor. However we could not manage to get every component to fit on the PCB petals. Moreover, the processors were underused as we barely needed half of their timer outputs. Therefore, further inside the Phyllo, we decided to add a layer with slightly bigger PCBs (let’s call them the petal controllers). They have a STM32F207VIT6 which can drive up to 10 LEDs.… Read more

I have a coil. I have a current => I have a magnetic field ! Wait, do I ?

by Ajili Z.

2019-12-13

12:09

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Logbook

Coils, Flip, Gross but instructive, Marbles, Power, Testing, Touch

A naive first approach

We received the coils denominated SDE1006A-681K. These are 680 µH inductance coils.

We roughly soldered two wires on each pole of the coil as you can see on the image below for very basic testing.

Next we needed to connect it to the IoT node. As a very basic montage for testing, we configured user button with polling on the IoT node to drive one of the GPIO pin we have on high when pressed.

We used a resistance to limit the current output. As we wanted a current of the ordre of the mA we used a resistance around 1 kΩ.… Read more