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Old 10-05-2009, 01:34 PM   #2373 (permalink)
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Michael's Electric Beetle - '71 Superbeetle 500000
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Does everyone except me have $10,000 software!? Totally not fair. It looks really fancy to me. Nice and symmetrical.

Fran added a bootloader to the code, and also serial communications code so that it's almost like an operating system now. Basically, with a serial connection (haha... don't worry, you can get a USB to serial plug for those new fangled laptops at a computer store) you can send various words like Kp and Ki, so that you can manually set the PI loop variables, or temperature, or throttle ramp rate, or anything you want. It's easy to add new things to the list if you want to. Now you don't need a programmer either.
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