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Test robo 4 wd arduino

This video shows my recent development with the tiny 4WD robot. I have used a spare Pinnacle IR remote which supports RC6 a very good protocol for IR transmission. Any direction I can select 2 speeds but I need to

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RFID reader with Norduino

I have got a module from JSXZLZ.com which reads RFID tags of the 125kHz type and  I thought is going to be very educational to write a simple demo for the Norduino + Teensy. So what I did was to

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Norduino Sparkfun Keyfob tutorial 1

This is my very first tutorial about using the Norduino. What I want to show is a simple application which will read the status buttons of the fob and activate 2 LEDS: when I press left the green one will

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Norduino IMU test RPY

This is a test with TTL serial.  

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Norduino + FreeImu 0.3 from Varesano

This post is to sum up my recent experiments with the FreeImu 0.3 version from Varesano. The FreeImu is interfaced on a Norduino sensor node (left side of the image) via the SDA,SCL,GND and Vcc(3.3V) header connector. The node is

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Norduino is now USB … HID!

I managed to finally interface the Nordic modules via USB. I have two working implementations now: teensy 2++: via the teensy arduino libraries minimus32: via the LUFA libraries This is very useful because now you can interface the NRF24L01 to

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Norduino range test

An interested user on the TI mailing list asked me to do a range test for the norduinos. He was unsatisfied with the EZ430-RF2500T that is well known for having a non optimal radio front end. With the EZ evaluation

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Developing Ports libraries

I spent some hours today to make the Ports library from Jeelabs compatible with Norduino. The main issue is to remove the RF12 library dependency and introduce the Norduino RF class. For instance say you are using the blink demo

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