We talked to Alexis this afternoon about ground transmission, and the solution we will finally go with is a mixture of those proposed in yesterday’s post. We will use wires soldered to the main PCB, and fix the GND wire to the axis with a sleeve clamp. Here is a diagram to present it:
How many ball bearings did you use for VCC transmission in your project ? Thanks in advance for your help 🙂
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 :
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
Happy New Year everyone, hope you enjoyed the holidays !!
Today we are going to talk about the latest trends of our hardware architecture.
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
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