//Always remove the propellers and stay away from the motors unless you //are 100% certain of what you are doing. //The program will start in calibration mode. //Send the following characters / ...

You can salvage some nice motors out of optical drives but they can be tricky to control. That’s because brushless DC motors require carefully timed signals used in a process called Electronic Speed ...

This project demonstrates a basic implementation for controlling the speed of a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor using a joystick and a Servo motor. The joystick input is read from an analog pin, and its ...

One of the sessions I'm really looking forward to at the forthcoming Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Minneapolis, MN, November 4-5, 2015, is the Awesome Arduino Show & Tell. Since this session is ...

We will start off with an introduction into the Arduino landscape, followed by a brief discussion of a personal project called Orbis — The Amazing Kinetic Sculpture. In fact, it was the problems I ...

Well, Hello There! (I'm sorry, I couldn’t help myself). In my previous column on this topic, I told you how you can Tweet your way into winning one of our uber-cool collectible edition wireless mesh ...