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• Crowded

  pnovotnak • 04/14/2015 at 07:40 • 0 comments

  Turns out that a particular hosting company that starts with a "J" has a service in the works called Triton which is weirdly sort of related to this one in an abstract way.

• I2C Woes

  pnovotnak • 04/12/2015 at 09:43 • 0 comments

  Since the initial prototype is going to use the I2C bus on the Edison, the first task I've assigned myself is getting a PCA9685 working with the board. I want to support as many boards as possible, but they all have different I2C modules with unique APIs. This drove me to create a simple wrapper to abstract them so that the bus can become more transparent to the framework. Behold, Pi2c is born!

• First Steps

  pnovotnak • 04/06/2015 at 06:58 • 0 comments

  Still a bit of a thought on a napkin. I've had an Intel Edison kicking around for a little while that will be the brains of the prototype. A breakout for the PCA9685 just came in the mail, and some servos. Got headers installed on the breakout, but haven't figured out how to set the registers on the PCA9685 correctly yet.

  Next steps are to acquire some gearmotors, a GPS / compass / accelerometer and h-bridge drivers for my Edison, and eventually a basic hull to begin working on integrating an autopilot.

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