Category: Electronics
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AnyFC F7 and DIY buzzer for INAV
Because both original and Banggood clone of AnyFC F7 flight controller and missing buzzer support, its usefulness is somehow limited. There is no dedicated pin and driver. Next release of INAV (1.7.2) will finally solve this problem by reusing Motor #9 output as buzzer output. But, some additional hardware will be required. To be precise,…
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USBasp driver for Windows 10 – Working solution
Yesterday I’ve spent like 2 hours fighting to make USBasp ISP programmer work under Windows 10 64bit. Seriously, that was like some kind of nightmare that turned into a comedy. All web pages that I’ve found suggested following procedure: Download zadig Install libusb-win32 Be happy Unfortunately, in my case all attempts failed miserably. All I…
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FS1000A and XY-MK-5V, Arduino and VirtualWire
While FS1000A and XY-MK-5V 433MHz radio modules might not be the best choice in terms of quality, or reliability or distance (although few hundred meters in open space are doable), they have one very important trait: they are extremely easy to use. No complicated wiring, no advanced programming. If you want to send some data,…
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FS1000A and XY-MK-5V range test
Very often, where you go cheap, there is a price to pay. Exactly like with cheap 433MHz transmitter-receiver pair of FS1000A and XY-MK-5V. You rather do not expect much for $1, right? When playing with them in a middle of a big city (Berlin), few meters of the range was all those modules were able…
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FS1000A and XY-MK-5V 433MHz RF modules: overview
One of the cheapest (but not the best) solutions for DIY wireless data transmission between different devices (Arduino and other microcontrollers) is a pair of 433MHz modules: FS1000A and XY-MK-5V. A set of them (you will need one transmitter and one receiver) costs about $1. Pretty cheap, right? Of course, there is a price to…
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Using FET transistors as switches
When over a year ago I published this post about using transistors as switches, I described only how to do it with bipolar transistors. And bipolar (NPN and PNP) transistors have a small problem: they are current driven, so they consume current when they are switched on. They consume much less than they drive, but…
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STM32 F1 and F3 versus LRS 433MHz interference issue
This topic first appeared on my table few weeks ago. Can a flight controller interfere with long range system running on 433MHz band like openLRSng? STM32 F1 and F3 based CPU running most flight controllers (Naze32, SPracingF3, Flip32, CC3D, etc.) run on 72MHz. Actually this is 8MHz of external clock and 9 multiplier. But still,…
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ESP8266 and DS18B20 – wireless ThingSpeak sensor
Here is another small project of mine: battery operated ESP8266 ESP-01 WiFi thermometer using DS18B20 and ThingSpeak API to collect data. Before we proceed, you should: Know how to program ESP8266 with Arduino IDE Know how to run ESP8266 on battery power for months Have an account on ThinkSpeak, create a channel and obtain write…
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ESP8266 ESP-01 Low Power Mode – run it for months
Amazing ESP8266 ESP-01 WiFi boards have pretty irritating problem: theirs power consumption is pretty high. Minimal power consumption of about 70mA when doing nothing and above 100mA when when transferring data makes it rather impossible to use it on battery power for a longer period of time. Set of 2 AA batteries would be drained…