This is Qt Creator 4.12. I have worked with Visual Studio for many years, so every IDE get compared to VS. QtCreator does the job as an editor, but it suck as a debugger. Even STM32CubeIDE that uses the same GDB is far better that Qt Debugger. And working with QML you might want to…
This demo is made in Qt using 2D raster graphics and works very well, but performance drops as I start adding animation effects into the screen. Performance was the reason I wanted to try out C#/.NET 4.6.2 and newer which also is much easier to work with than Qt. Performance is different in the later…
I did an attempt of using the 2D raster engine in Qt and while the graphical result was stunning I had to face the fact that performance was not. I moved back to C#/.NET because performance there was better after .NET 4.6.2. With C# I can do 10 x line plots at 40ich frames per…
The wheels above are cool, specially since they can carry a lot of weight. But, the motors are 2 x 2.5KW and the belt driven design is very open making it easy to be contaminated. The powerfully motors are more designed for speed than for driving slowly, but I will optimize that later. Position system…
The plan is to use two separate CAN Networks on my Lawn Mover – one network for motors, and one network for everything else – both using CAN HS at 1Mbps. To do this I consider upgrading XportHub. This picture show XPortHub2 w/2 CAN Ports. ISO1042 is an isolated CAN tranceiver in a SOIC8 a…
This is a new version of my 32 x IO/Servo Hat. I have always been a bit unhappy with pin-header connectors since they can be disconnected easily, so I decided to try how a surface mounted 2-pin JST worked out and voila – 32 2 pin connectors with signal and ground. This means I drop…
I am currently using DRV8301 from TI and is very happy with that one, but I want to add a 3rd Current Sensor so I can detect sensor errors and my eyes fell on DRV8353 and DRV8323 series. DRV8323 is 60V, while DRV8353 is 100V. I don’t mind the increase in voltage. The numbering is…
I recently discovered this chip (ISO1042) and wanted to share a circuit I found. This circuit is excellent, but it has two flaws: Firstly you need a small isolation coil 10-20uH between ISO 1042 and VCC1. This act as a filter so that higher frequencies used by the buck converter in ISO1042 do not disturb…
My previous entry show how to pre-calculate a Sinus table so we avoid doing this full speed because the next step is to convert this into a PWM pulse. A PWM pulse is measured in time – length – so we need to know the max length of a pulse. That is decided by the…
As mentioned in part2 I want to create a 360 degree vector table with PWM duties for A,B and C. This allows me to drive sinusoidal by simply stepping 0 to 359. To do this I create a small C application as follows: #include “stdio.h” #include “stdlib.h” #include “math.h” int main(int argc, char* argv) { FILE* fd = fopen(“vectors.cpp”, “w”); if (fd != NULL) { fprintf(fd, “alSinusVector _vector[AL3P_VECTOR_SIZE]=\n”); fprintf(fd, “{\n”); for (int i = 0; i < 360; i++) {…