Sparkfun's 5DOF
After my experiments with the thermophile sensors, I decided to give Sparkfun ‘s 5DOF a try. Thermophile sensors worked well, but you need 6 sensors to be able to make nice turns. Then it becomes annoying and a lot heavier than this 5DOF module. It’s not that much cheaper eather (10$ per thermophile sensor, 110$ for the 5DOF).
Anyhow, after some troubles with the creation of the test board, it is finally done:
I also needed a new programmer to program the dsPic I’m planning to use. Ebay pointed me to a chinese ICD2 clone. Not bad :-)
Now the electronics side of the tests is finished, I can move on to the software side (Kalman filter!) which is more my cup of tea.
7 October 2007, 09:59
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Hi Tom,
Really I appreciate your work, but could you tell me:
why using dsPIC?
Is Pic18 not enough?
speed in math?
or faster timers??
Thanks again
— Amgd ali, 28 March 2008, 08:40 | #
Hi,
I am interesting to get your software, i have a 5DOF sensor and a 18f452 PIC, but i don’t know kalman filtering . Could you help me?
thanks
claude
— claude80, 19 May 2008, 14:14 | #
Hi Tom
I am playing around with the 5DOF board, is it possible to get a copy of your code to get me started?
Thanks
Johan
— Johan, 25 May 2008, 08:23 | #
See http://tom.pycke.be/mav/92/kalman-demo-application
— Tom, 25 May 2008, 11:02 | #
Hello Tom,
I have built the Kalman PCB and bought the S/fun sensor. But I cannot connect my ICD2 to the PCB, Could you advise the resistor, capacitor diode values for the PCB please. I used 10K-R1, C2-100nF ceram, C1-22uF elec, VREG-LE33. I am also unsure of Vdd (program volts), but assumed its 5V, like 16Fxxx pics. Think its nearly there so looking forward to getting it going, great project.
Regards Chris
— Chris Box, 21 December 2008, 11:34 | #