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How to learn PID Control?
I want to learn PID (Proportional–Integral–Derivative) control mainly for temperature.
I would like to learn preferably through an easy project to do.
Could you please recommend something which ...
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Capacitive Touchscreen for DIY usage?
Anyone know of a good source for capacitive touchscreens in low quantity at a reasonable price? Just something to play around with in projects, I'm interested in either small (eg for portable ...
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Scaling PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) Output
I have implemented a PID function using the formula,
correction = Kp * error + Kd * (error - prevError) + kI * (sum of errors)
What should I do to keep my output ...
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Conversion of PID controller components with state feedback into single transfer function and discrete state-space form
I've been wrestling with this problem for about a week now, as a part of a year-long project. We're designing a controller for a specific reactor based on a model. After looking at this for a while, I ...
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Simplest circuit that flashes and fades color LEDs synchronized to music?
This is about designing a circuit that can control multiple LEDs synchronized to music or sound, as simply as possible. I am looking for some conceptual ideas to start out with, not a complete circuit ...
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Drive 4 DC motors off a dual drive motor controller
I'd like to build a 4-wheel skid steer robot. I have selected this motor and this motor controller.
The motor controller can handle a 10A draw and has the ability to operate over serial TTL and give ...
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Use an old Nintendo NES Controller as an input device
Does anyone have a pin out diagram for the Nintendo NES Controller? I'd like to connect the NES controller to an Arduino.
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Isolating motor control signals from microcontroller from high voltage/current lines
We need to design an integrated DC motor controller/driver, which will be under microprocessor control. Due to space requirements, either the digital and analog circuitry will be on a single PCB ...
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LED Driver for 300mA LEDs
I'm trying to put together a project with some bright LEDs but I'm not sure how to control them. Ideally I'd like to drive about 64 of these LEDs that have a forward current of 300mA and voltage drop ...
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Motor driver board - wingxine - need help with wiring
Recently I bought this motor driver but I didn't get wiring diagram for it (it's last time I bought something like this). I would like someone to provide some wiring schematics for this motor driver ...
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4017 counter: Why do some LEDs have multiple connections in this traffic light circuit?
Schematic (from here):
Why are four legs connected to the green LED and two to the amber LED in the 4017 traffic light circuit? Shouldn't it be able to do with only one leg per LED?
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When are MIPS control signals generated?
Are the control signals for a given instruction generated within a single cycle
for the pipelined, the multicycle as well as the single-cycle implementations of the MIPS32 datapath?
I think they ...
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What is used to control AC motor speed?
This is a AC 220v 60W 0.2A fan I recently bought to replace my old bathroom vent that gave up some time ago. The problem is that the new one doesn't come with a built in speed controller like the old ...
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Video Controller Design
I'm designing my own computer based on the Zilog Z80. It has 256KiB of static RAM with paging as well as a few megabytes of flash memory. Everything is going along pretty well until * BAM * I hit a ...
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IC for converting single phase to three phase
I want to design a device for use and control three phase ac motor with single AC power.
I need to able converting single phase to three phase. Also an three phase ac motor controller should be ...
