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Reading Time: 13 minutesProject Name: OwlBot Project Description: In this section of Part 6, we create the connectors we need to connect the OwlBot’s components to the Arduino shield board and daughter-board. Project Difficulty: Moderate Project Note: For this part of the project we will be using a soldering iron and heat-gun. Use caution when handling hot items. […]
Reading Time: 39 minutesIntroduction Okey dokey, we’re back on track again. We kinda took a little big detour there for a while after Part 3 of this series titled How Components Work Together. We got into a discussion on astable multivibrators, then we answered some questions on our last project — the LED blinker circuit — and we […]
Reading Time: 22 minutesIntroduction Welcome back! In this series, we’re still continuing our goal to understand analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) of a PIC microcontroller, and how to program one to accept and convert an analog input. It is my personal goal to help guide you to do this in a way that I learned from a terrific book I […]
Reading Time: 23 minutesIntroduction The following content is intended to be a companion to the LED blinker circuit we created from our article titled, “How Components Work Together in Real Circuits.” The sole purpose of this discussion is to work as an extended topic for that article to help you understand your circuit better, to help clarify what’s […]
Reading Time: 17 minutesIntroduction The following content is intended to be a companion to the LED blinker circuit we created from our article titled, “How Components Work Together in Real Circuits.” The sole purpose of this discussion is to work as an extended topic for that article to help you understand your circuit better, to help clarify what’s […]
Reading Time: 15 minutesIntroduction The following content is intended to be a companion to the LED blinker circuit we created from our article titled, “How Components Work Together in Real Circuits.” The sole purpose of this discussion is to work as an extended topic for that article to help you understand your circuit better, and to help clarify […]
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe following is Part 3, of a planned 12 part super series on the topic of components. We started with what components are, then we learned how to decipher their symbols to read circuit schematic diagrams — now we’re moving onto the topic of how these components work together in real circuits. Later, we’ll progressively […]
Reading Time: 12 minutesIntroduction The following is Part 2, of a planned 12 part super series on the topic of components. We started with what components are – now we’re moving onto the topic of circuit component symbols and schematics. Later, we’ll progressively work through more topics and ideas of components, further advancing these ideas into a robot […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesIntroduction The following is Part 1, of a planned 12 part super series on the topic of components – starting with what components are, then progressively working through more topics and ideas of components, further advancing these ideas into a robot project to really get you to understand how they work together to create something […]
Reading Time: 11 minutesIntroduction If you’re of a generation born before the 21st century, you, like when most people of an age that’s been around longer than 30 years think about robots, you might imagine something straight out of a movie. For example, when I think of robots, I think of some of the most iconic ones from […]
