Soldering Your Accelerometer – The ADXL202E

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I finally get my hands on Analog Devices’ accelerometer- the ADXL202E. It’s small,very small. See what I mean! However there’s this problem, I usually work on PDIP packages and SMDs do give me a scare,not because I’ve never soldered them,but because I do not have the necessary equipment for it. So I decide to do [...]

Accelerometers for your Robot[The ADXL202 and the MEMSIC 2125]

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

You’ve seen robots run on two wheels ,walk on two legs and balance just like us humans.I bet you’ve wondered whats in them that makes them “not tip over. The device that enables this is a tiny teeny IMEM [aMicro Electro-Mechanical System] which can measure anything between ±1g to ±20g [some of the high g [...]

Parallel Port Tutorial – Part 2 (Handling Inputs)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Disclaimer : The information provided here is correct to my best knowledge.You may use it at your own risk. This is a followup of the first tutorial which described using the port as an output. This tutorial demonstrates how to use the parallel port as an input. This feature is a great help in robotics [...]

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