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  • YveauxY Yveaux

    @dbemowsk said in What did you build today (Pictures) ?:

    If anyone knows a good way of figuring this out I am all ears.

    It would expect making a large movement using a defined number of steps, and measuring the actual distance moved with a caliper will give you a rather accurate steps/mm.
    However, I hope this ratio is constant over the whole range, given the 3d printed gears and expected backlash...

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    @yveaux as far as the backlash, i had already thought of that. I have 2 coupler nuts with a spring in between to handle the little bit of backlash that there is. I only had a thin spring though. I want to find a stronger one.

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    • sundberg84S sundberg84

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      I'm building a wine rack for my wife in a celler room (currently 14 dgr with 4 dgr outside). I mowed my beer cooler temp node (rfm radio) to measure how much the temp changed over the day. I wrote a script in Lua/Domoticz that each time it changes 1dgr it should notify me. Apparently is a stable temp the most important to store wine.

      All ideas how I can automate the shit out of this wine-room are appreciated.

      • LCD display with temp/hum (both on the floor and celling) (Red needs apparently cooler than white wine... Or the opposite).

      • I'm thinking about to try a passive cooler. A burried hose/pipe in a loop with a 12v fan/pump and temp. My idea is that if I rotate the 14dgr air in a say 20m pipe under ground it should cool the air some . This needs to be automated to keep the temp stable.

      • light. Some sort of led strips.

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      @sundberg84
      Redundancy, maybe you should get a second temp/humidity measurement device, just in case your current beer cooler temp node breaks down...

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      • bjacobseB bjacobse

        @sundberg84
        Redundancy, maybe you should get a second temp/humidity measurement device, just in case your current beer cooler temp node breaks down...

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        @bjacobse or get redundant beer coolers :) Important to always have cool beer.

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        • mfalkviddM mfalkvidd

          @bjacobse or get redundant beer coolers :) Important to always have cool beer.

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          @mfalkvidd
          True but usually wines have a higher price and a more valuable - not starting a discussing/flame war what is best to drink...

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          • mfalkviddM mfalkvidd

            @bjacobse or get redundant beer coolers :) Important to always have cool beer.

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            @mfalkvidd Can't have too much redundancy there...

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              #362

              Made this 12 button keypad. Requires only one analog pin to read which button is pressed, and any button press can also wake an arduino from sleep:
              0_1517277256612_12keypad.jpg
              Consumes no power when no button is pressed.

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              • NeverDieN NeverDie

                Made this 12 button keypad. Requires only one analog pin to read which button is pressed, and any button press can also wake an arduino from sleep:
                0_1517277256612_12keypad.jpg
                Consumes no power when no button is pressed.

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                Here's a thread which covers it in more detail: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/8936/6-8-buttons-battery-remote-node/36

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                • NeverDieN NeverDie

                  Here's a thread which covers it in more detail: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/8936/6-8-buttons-battery-remote-node/36

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                  @neverdie what happens when you press two or more buttons ??

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                  • rozpruwaczR rozpruwacz

                    @neverdie what happens when you press two or more buttons ??

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                    #365

                    @rozpruwacz Well, with the sketch I wrote (see link), you'd get the value of the first button pressed, and that's it. You'd have to release all the buttons before selecting a new button.

                    In terms of the hardware itself, there's an order of precedence to the buttons, so at all times you'd only be able to read the value of a single button, even if more than one button were pressed. In a multi-button press scenario, the buttons of lower precedence are ignored.

                    It's a good question though. If you needed to read more than one button simultaneously (such as, for example, move an RC car forward and turn right at the same time), this wouldn't do it. Seems like such a circuit would be possible though, maybe even one based on simple voltage dividing like this one. Somehow you'd need to sum unique resistances for each button pushed instead of just choose a single resistance. I can imagine doing that for a few buttons on an arduino, but maybe not as many as 12.

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                    • NeverDieN NeverDie

                      @rozpruwacz Well, with the sketch I wrote (see link), you'd get the value of the first button pressed, and that's it. You'd have to release all the buttons before selecting a new button.

                      In terms of the hardware itself, there's an order of precedence to the buttons, so at all times you'd only be able to read the value of a single button, even if more than one button were pressed. In a multi-button press scenario, the buttons of lower precedence are ignored.

                      It's a good question though. If you needed to read more than one button simultaneously (such as, for example, move an RC car forward and turn right at the same time), this wouldn't do it. Seems like such a circuit would be possible though, maybe even one based on simple voltage dividing like this one. Somehow you'd need to sum unique resistances for each button pushed instead of just choose a single resistance. I can imagine doing that for a few buttons on an arduino, but maybe not as many as 12.

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                      @neverdie I'm asking because I Was trying to do something like this. If there was a resistor values set that would make all 2**n (where n is the number of buttons) choices spaced enough in voltage domain it would work, but I couldn't find such a set ...

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                      • rozpruwaczR rozpruwacz

                        @neverdie I'm asking because I Was trying to do something like this. If there was a resistor values set that would make all 2**n (where n is the number of buttons) choices spaced enough in voltage domain it would work, but I couldn't find such a set ...

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                        #367

                        @rozpruwacz said in What did you build today (Pictures) ?:

                        @neverdie I'm asking because I Was trying to do something like this. If there was a resistor values set that would make all 2**n (where n is the number of buttons) choices spaced enough in voltage domain it would work, but I couldn't find such a set ...

                        That's why it might work if you needed it for only a few buttons. With only 1024 units of voltage, seems like you'd quickly run out of resolution if you tried to do more.

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                          wrote on last edited by sundberg84
                          #368

                          I built my first MysX daughter board which I will connect to my EasyPCB to drive a led strip.
                          This will power everything from 12v so 2 things. Power main board and dim LED strip.

                          0_1517346818295_f17d0698-17e1-4842-997e-fa8ddc1d8019-image.png

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                          • sundberg84S sundberg84

                            I built my first MysX daughter board which I will connect to my EasyPCB to drive a led strip.
                            This will power everything from 12v so 2 things. Power main board and dim LED strip.

                            0_1517346818295_f17d0698-17e1-4842-997e-fa8ddc1d8019-image.png

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                            Do anyone knows it the back of a TO-220 always is connected to GND and if this should be connected to the board GND as well? Currently I have a exposed copper as a heatsink but this copper is not connected to GND.

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                              @sundberg84

                              Depends on the manufacturer / device type.. So look in the datasheet of the one that you want to use.

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                              • tbowmoT tbowmo

                                @sundberg84

                                Depends on the manufacturer / device type.. So look in the datasheet of the one that you want to use.

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                                #371

                                @tbowmo
                                Thank you - I want to be able to use them all/different (ie. 5v, 3.3v, different manufacturer) so I wont connect it and just use it as a heatsink.

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                                • tbowmoT tbowmo

                                  @sundberg84

                                  Depends on the manufacturer / device type.. So look in the datasheet of the one that you want to use.

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                                  @tbowmo I agree, it would be per device specs. In many cases I see that connected to the middle pin (whatever that may be), but not always.

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                                    Made this two-button nRF52832 remote control:
                                    0_1517498847917_nrf52_remote.jpg
                                    It only draws power when one of the buttons is pressed.

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                                      nice :) what about range of the nRF52832 ? is it better than nfr24l01+ with pcb antenna ? I had problems with nrf24 and now I'm trying with rfm69. From first tests I can tell that it has much better range - but it is slightly larger and requires an antenna ...

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                                      • rozpruwaczR rozpruwacz

                                        nice :) what about range of the nRF52832 ? is it better than nfr24l01+ with pcb antenna ? I had problems with nrf24 and now I'm trying with rfm69. From first tests I can tell that it has much better range - but it is slightly larger and requires an antenna ...

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                                        @rozpruwacz said in What did you build today (Pictures) ?:

                                        is it better than nfr24l01+ with pcb antenna ?

                                        yes

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                                          Assembled and tested final version of LoRa Leak Detector:
                                          0_1517532798060_lora_leak_detector_v15.jpg
                                          Thanks to an external watchdog (TPL5010), it consumes very little current while sleeping. Also, the external watchdog will reboot the pro mini should it ever become unresponsive, so, in addition, it should be highly reliable.

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