FYS4240 / FYS3240, is all about how Micro-controllers, PC Processors and busses are made and gives you a very wide perspective in choice of connection technologies and micro controllers. Topics from internal structure of micro controllers to interfaces on it and parallel programming on multi core / multi processor machines. It also includes LABView and C programming for AVR micro controllers in the lab assignments. This course is recommended to take by all electronics, Robotics students and I would have a much wider point of view if I had taken this course in the beginning of my studies (something that did not happen because of lack of communication between physics department and departments of informatic). Here you can download the exam paper for spring 2011. (more…)
Computer based instrumentation and micro controllers, FYS4240 / FYS3240
August 31st, 2011 | Posted by in Arduino | Electronics | My Studies | Programming | Rapid Prototyping | Robotics | Shahab | UiO | VC++ | Video - (0 Comments)Processing, the key for Arduino board independent programming
May 23rd, 2011 | Posted by in Arduino | Electronics | Java | Processing | Programming | Robotics | Shahab - (0 Comments)When it comes to Arduino, there are several ways to do things. Using simple Arduino IDE to communicate with the board through serial port. Write a Java program to do it, or maybe do send orders to Arduino through your program that is not uploaded on Arduino card and can be changed anytime without even updating the pde file on the board. The tool that gives you the power to do this is called Processing & the library used exactly for Arduino is called StandardFirmdata. The very good thing about Processing is that it is based on Java and all Java codes works right out of the box on it. You can also import processing libraries into your Java framwork and enjoy the power of processing right in the middle of your Java project(in Eclipse).
The instruction to get Processing & Arduino talk together :
- Download this file.
- Unzip the library and copy the “arduino” folder into the “libraries” sub-folder of your Processing Sketchbook. (You can find the location of your Sketchbook by opening the Processing Preferences. If you haven’t made a “libraries” sub-folder, create one.)
- Run Arduino, open the Examples > Firmata > StandardFirmata sketch, and upload it to the Arduino board.
- Configure Processing for serial:http://processing.org/reference/libraries/serial/
- In Processing, open one of the examples that comes with with the Arduino library(in the same folder that we just unzipped).
- Edit the example code to select the correct serial port.
- Run the example.
>The tolerance issue in 3D printing
May 10th, 2011 | Posted by in 3D Printing | Walloid - (0 Comments)>
>Finally OpenCV 2.1 & MS VC++ 2008 worked together …
May 5th, 2011 | Posted by in Programming | Walloid - (0 Comments)>
>I2C inter micro controller communication
First experiment, failed !!! The problem : Grounds were not connected together !!!
Second experiment, Succeeded :-)
Master Writer Code – Program for Arduino 1
// Wire Master Writer// by Nicholas Zambetti
// Demonstrates use of the Wire library// Writes data to an I2C/TWI slave device// Refer to the "Wire Slave Receiver" example for use with this
// Created 29 March 2006
// This example code is in the public domain.
#include
void setup(){ Wire.begin(); // join i2c bus (address optional for master)}
byte x = 0;
void loop(){ Wire.beginTransmission(4); // transmit to device #4 Wire.send("x is "); // sends five bytes Wire.send(x); // sends one byte Wire.endTransmission(); // stop transmitting
x++; delay(500);}
Slave Receiver Code – Program for Arduino 2
// Wire Slave Receiver// by Nicholas Zambetti
// Demonstrates use of the Wire library// Receives data as an I2C/TWI slave device// Refer to the "Wire Master Writer" example for use with this
// Created 29 March 2006
// This example code is in the public domain.
#include
void setup(){ Wire.begin(4); // join i2c bus with address #4 Wire.onReceive(receiveEvent); // register event Serial.begin(9600); // start serial for output}
void loop(){ delay(100);}
// function that executes whenever data is received from master// this function is registered as an event, see setup()void receiveEvent(int howMany){ while(1 < Wire.available()) // loop through all but the last { char c = Wire.receive(); // receive byte as a character Serial.print(c); // print the character } int x = Wire.receive(); // receive byte as an integer Serial.println(x); // print the integer}
>Use of FPGA, Pros & Cos vs. use of Arduino
March 30th, 2011 | Posted by in Electronics | Video | Walloid - (0 Comments)>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2wsockKwPQ&w=480&h=390]
FPGA advantages
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLxS9SvniA0&w=480&h=390]
One of the main disadvantages can be complexity.
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>I2C Inter Board communication, Arduino
March 15th, 2011 | Posted by in Electronics | Walloid - (0 Comments)>http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/I2C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C
http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/I2C-bus.html
http://absences.sofianaudry.com/en/node/10
















