Hi Everyone,
At last I found my camera so I can finally post some pictures, nothing truly awe inspiring, but they mark my progress... Albeit slowly, there's one photo in there that's totally unrelated to this thread but I thought Martin might like it to show off his amazing miniature handy work, sorry that they are a bit blurry but this camera doesn't have stabilisation, once I've posted I'll try to get them in some sort of order and provide some comments to explain them.
Thanks for having a look.
Bill
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Progress to date
Hi Everyone,
At last I found my camera so I can finally post some pictures, nothing truly awe inspiring, but they mark my progress... Albeit slowly, there's one photo in there that's totally unrelated to this thread but I thought Martin might like it to show off his amazing miniature handy work, sorry that they are a bit blurry but this camera doesn't have stabilisation, once I've posted I'll try to get them in some sort of order and provide some comments to explain them.
Thanks for having a look.
Bill
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Hi Everyone,
I soldered everything together yesterday and in a burst of enthusiasm assembled it only to find that something isn't quite right, I suspect a dry joint somewhere...
lesson one (the one I keep forgetting to do - ok that I bypass😊) TEST IN STAGES
lesson two ..... refer to lesson one 😊
So everything is disassembled - again, and I'll check all my joints. If in doubt redo the joints.
I had a closer look at the pinheaders on the Nano this morning and it looks like there could be a few dry joints, so my first step will be to get the soldering iron out again and just work through them one by one.
I'll take a small break from this just to recharge my batteries, and then have another go.
All part of the learning curve 😊
Bill
Minor setback
Hi Everyone,
I soldered everything together yesterday and in a burst of enthusiasm assembled it only to find that something isn't quite right, I suspect a dry joint somewhere...
lesson one (the one I keep forgetting to do - ok that I bypass😊) TEST IN STAGES
lesson two ..... refer to lesson one 😊
So everything is disassembled - again, and I'll check all my joints. If in doubt redo the joints.
I had a closer look at the pinheaders on the Nano this morning and it looks like there could be a few dry joints, so my first step will be to get the soldering iron out again and just work through them one by one.
I'll take a small break from this just to recharge my batteries, and then have another go.
All part of the learning curve 😊
Bill
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Not too big of a job, just unpicked the hot glue, drilled a new hole for the antenna and we'll try again.
Mmm I wonder if I had these... nah couldn't have - could I ?😊
Bill
The first post in this thread has a bunch of photos that range in age, some go back to nearly the start of this voyage.
Photo number 1 is the old remote controller that I pulled down from the attic and took apart and stripped out, I'll be reusing this case for the Arduino based remote controller.
Photo number 2 is just the back of the controller.
Photo number 3 is a fairly recent one showing how everything connected to the breadboards, the one on the left is the receiver and also has the oled display attached - even though it's not clear to see. the one on the right is the transmitter.
Above is a Nano controller and to the right of it is an uno controller, both have pretty much the same capability despite the difference in size.
Photo 4 is another early photo when I was using the uno to develop the code.
At this stage the code was all in one before I split it to develop the comms code.
One of the problems I was having at this stage was losing the joystick signal - which wasn't surprising when the wires were just twisted together 😊
Photo 5 This is totally unconnected to this thread, just a bit of fun really, I found this wee bottle during my rummage through the attic, and I immediately thought of Martin and his miniature creations, just to the right of it is a 10 Eurocent coin which is pretty small.
Photo 6 this is some of the bits that I'll be using for the range tester and some main denomination coins to give a sense of scale. the 2 units just above the coins are the RFM69HCW transceivers that I'll be using for the final project, and below the coins is the OLED display.
Photo 7 shows the circuits still wired to the breadboards and the plastic box that I'll be using for the range testers.
The straws that I'll be using to hold up the antenna cable, which is just 173 mm of the silicon wire that is from the box also in shot.
My apologies for the quality of these photos, the camera that I'll be replacing in a week or so is pretty old at this stage, and doesn't have anti shake, and I can't figure out why the flash isn't working.
Thanks for looking
Bill