Arduino + HDD + ESC Progress.
by Dave Johnson
February
21
2011
I got everything up and running, thanks to some help from arduino.cc. I was able to spin it up to full speed, cut the slice in the hard disk plater, and even get a small POV effect with an RGB led. what’s left on the list is a hall effect sensor and some RGB led tape.
Arduino + HDD + ESC
by Dave Johnson
February
19
2011
my project for the past two days has been to get a BLDS hard drive motor to spin at 5400rpms I read high and low on how to control these motors and everyone said that a ESC (electronic speed controller) would be the best route to go in. so a made a visit at my local hobby shop that specialize in airplanes and picked up a E-Flite Pro 10A ESC. and it took me 24hour to figure out how to get a steady speed. I’ll post schematics and code in a later post after i get it all figured out.
Fixed my 3x3x3 led cube
by Dave Johnson
February
16
2011
I haven’t really done much with my LED Cube since I built it a year ago, so it wound up in my parts box. Despite my best efforts not to smash it, I eventually did. Last night I decided to salvage it and see if I could true it up and make it a perfect square again.
I had to fix a few solder points but it’s back up and working again and even adapted my vu meter code to it with a some small changes.
and here are some pictures from when I built it a year ago.
