Blog posts by banjohat

banjohat

Denmark

You talkin' to me?

1 Jun 2011

So, connectivity... Where would we be without it? Well, obviously some place else. But as luck would have it, we are able to communicate and we can communicate with our ICs. In fact we're having loads of ways to talk to with the os-so-friendly microcontroller. Be it an arduino, a PIC or similar. All the different chips has a way of communicating.

What we often miss today is the UART. The simple serial port that allows us to simply print and read characters to and from the MCU. Read more

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banjohat

Denmark

How do we know? We sample! (Ecocar part 2)

5 Mar 2011

In order to optimize the working of the ecocar (Prototype class) a huge amount of data is acquired. Learn how it is done.

Raw Data

Lessons learned during the past week:

1. Time does not stand still, just because the team is behind schedule..

2. A team can not have to many electronic specialists.. Not even when they disagree Read more

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banjohat

Denmark

The making of an Ecocar - Part 1

14 Feb 2011

The Innovator vehicle

One of the vehicles from the Danish team 'DTU Roadrunners'. Follow the blog and learn a bit about fuel-cells, mechanic design, collaboration with team members and gain some insight in the work of the team.

First of all, let me introduce myself: Read more

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