A blog is excellent for sharing ideas down and returning to evolve them later. It’s been a while since I wrote about Plain. I basically stopped because I had other things I wanted to work on, but I think it is time to review/consolidate the specification and move on. Is it worth it? Will it…
I have been in the marked for a CAD program for some time and finally realized that Autodesk Fusion 360 is free for non-commercial and minor commercial usage. It also have loads of training videos to get you started. I have only been using it for a day, but it seems to do the job.
#4 on the picture above is Servo channels. I discovered that only 8 of there are working as expected. The 4 last ones have GPIO 34-39 that failed in testing – and reading small notes in the datasheet I realize that I have missed out a “input only” note on these pins. And guess 3…
I have tried PlatformIO twice. Once for STM32 and now for ESP32. PlatformIO promote itself as open source, but it looks more like a commercial solution with version No 0.14. It can be added to Visual Studio Code. It imports existing Arduino Projects etc. But, well – two attempts and it is still sorted under…
Having used Arduino IDE to develope the ESP32 Utility Driver code I must admit that while I in general like Arduino I also miss a proper code editor. Sticking to Arduino (for now) I decided top try out Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is basically a free and liteweight version of Visual Studio. In…
One of the things that I am not happy with is the FreeRTOS implementation on the Arduino ESP32 library. I try to reserve core 1 for bit-banging and I have a nice average 4uS accuracy. But, I also have 110uS long iterations ca once per second as I activate WiFi. Also, I fail to activate…
While I am working on more permanent HMI solutions I need a CLI that communicate through USB that can initialize the ESP32 based designs. A CLI is a command line interface that act like a brute force interpreter. In theory we could implement a full Unix alike shell, but I only want a few commands…
The DPS5005 contains a USB/RS485 interface so both PSU’s can be remotely controlled. I want to use this option to create a Wifi based PSU. ESP-Wroom-32 do have 3 UART’s, so we can still keep UART0 for programming and use UART1 & 2 for each board. I do however notice on the original USB board…
Working with software is often long hours with invisible progress. In this case I worked on the Edit Control. I actually tried to use a standard Windows one, but decided to make my own from scratch. In effect it is only a few things I use from Qt including their interface to OpenGL. Edit Control…
This shows the assembled PSU. Only one of the DPS5005 modules are mounted as I am still waiting on the 2nd. You can see the driver stage mounted inside. The black painted front turned out quite nice. This is the back side with the mains connector, fuse and switch. I have to wait a few…