Power Tracking
One of the things I'm quite interested in keeping an eye on (and wish I'd started making notes a lot earlier) is how much battery power I consume at an…
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August 8, 2019
r2_control Shopping List
A few people have expressed an interest in my r2_control system, so I thought I'd do a post about how it works, and what it needs. At the core is…
April 16, 2019
R2 PSI using off the shelf parts
Introduction The current state of PSI displays from the club are either simple TeeCees ones, or the VADER boards. I've had a couple of the VADER boards in R2 for…
February 23, 2019
Stealthy control
For a long time I've wanted to make a much more stealthy method of control. When I first started R2, I'd considered using a Wii remote and nunchuck, but I…
September 24, 2018
Code refactor
The last few days have been spent doing some fairly major refactoring and other code improvements. I wanted to add functionality for the FlthyMcNasty HP control systems and realised as…
July 10, 2018
Release 1.0 of r2_control
After a few false starts and more or less total rewrites, I have decided that the core functionality of r2_control deserves a 1.0 release. https://github.com/dpoulson/r2_control/releases/tag/1.0 The last few updates have…
January 31, 2018
Weekend of code enhancements
The temperature is getting low, and after spending most of saturday getting numb fingers and feet whilst working on R2's center foot, I decided to do some much warmer work…
November 27, 2017
Electrics Overview
After a recent discussion on the facebook group, I thought it was time to finally document the internals of R2 as best I could. Not the most elegant of diagrams,…
September 18, 2017
Building a battery for R2 with 18650 cells
There are many options for a battery to power an astromech, from the tried and tested Sealed Lead-Acid, to the latest LiFePO4. This article will look at utilising the very…
April 21, 2017
More power!
Its been a long time since an update, but we moved house at the start of the year and things have been hectic. At least, thats my excuse and I'm…
December 4, 2015