For the QuadroCopter, we could have easily built something that just flies, however we decided to go the harder route and build everything from complete scratch. Too many mistakes have been made, so now I think we’ll have to rebuild the whole thing. We’re still on the mainboard portion of the project.
Mistake 1 – Exothermic [...]
We are making progress with the QuadroCopter. I had made the PCB yesterday, but tried to reflow the LGA chips (accelerometers, gyros, compass), but it didn’t work well. I tried to tin the LGA pads by doing a drag soldering technique, but it ended up pulling the pads off the board. Seemed a bit messy, [...]
I finally made the PCB for the QuadroCopter drone me and my friend are making. Today I produced about 5 PCBs, 3 of which didn’t turn out. So in this tutorial I’ll go through what I did so if you’re Googling around and come here for tips, you’ll get to know what works and what [...]
A lot of people have this error, and my goal at StevenJohal.com is to share information in which you can’t find normally on Google, but now you will be by landing here. I had an issue deactivating my facebook account and tried Googling the error and found no success. I only found more people with [...]
I tried being patient for once, and discovered the benefits.
1. Being patient means your overall mindset will be more relaxed and your worries disappear if you slow down and take a chillaxative. After being patient for one whole day, I managed to sleep better. The sleep was so effective, I was able to wake up [...]
There are many who hate Chipotle and many who love it. I love it so much, that the lettering on the logo for StevenJohal.com resembles the lettering of the Chipotle logo. Those who hate it, often choose bad combinations of ingredients when building their burrito. Also eating Chipotle during non-peak hours is not always the [...]
This is a really good simple song from Mel Karade Rabba, a Punjabi movie starring Jimmy Shergill, Neeru Bajwa & Gippy Grewal. Dilwali Kothi MP3
Lyrics:
Tere aggey picche aggey picche
Lawaan main ta gede
Door door kyun jaave hun ta aaja nede nede
Translation:
I keep roaming after you
Why do you go away from me?
Come near
Lyrics:
Tu rang di gori roop [...]
Its pretty easy testing out your GPS module if you have an LCD screen using your Arduino.
You can have the LCD output latitude, longitude, or whatever. You’ll need the TinyGPS library from Arduiniana downloaded and installed for it to work. They suggest using NewSoftSerial, but I couldn’t get that to work, so I scrapped that [...]
I was really eager to interface GPS data with the Arduino microcontroller. The possibilities are endless from Autopilot robots, precisely timed junk, whatever. Tackling it one step at a time, the first goal is to read NMEA data strings from the transmit (Tx) UART serial pin of a GPS module. While, I didn’t want to [...]
I picked myself up an Arduino Duemilanove development board. Its a small PCB made in Italy that has a socket for an Atmel Microcontroller, voltage regulator, and sockets for all the inputs and outputs. It has a few other features such as an ICSP header so that you can program a microcontroller while its in [...]
