QuickStart user trying to learn
dazzor
Posts: 2
Hi all, the message at the top of my screen says I have to post a thread to unlock my account.
I purchased the QuickStart some time back and have been working to learn assembly. My purpose it to use it as a brushless DC motor controller. I actually had success of sorts but found that I need a feed back mechanism even if it is sensorless. This weekend I hope to incorporate Hall Effect transistors into my test motor and play with that. Also I put together an A to D converter and plan to use that as an input. I am not sure how yet but I know I will need to modulate the low set of power FETs to regulate the speed. So I will need to use the 8 bit digital output from the ADC as an input and use that to create a single modulated output (sounds simple enough). Honestly, I know I started out quite naive and there is a lot I still do not understand about the ESC and BLDC controllers but I have learned a lot in the past few months and feel I am on the right path. There are actually a lot of microcontrollers designed specifically for ESC but I bought a QuickStart board before I found out about this and believe that if nothing else I can learn a lot mucking around with it. - making the lights blink is cool :P...
A real problem I am having is that I run Linux exclusively on my laptop and cannot get the Propeller IDE to run on it. I use Precise Puppy which is Debian based but the IDE does not launch. I do not really have the enthusiasm to dig into that problem and will suffer using my desktop with Windows 7. But any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
I purchased the QuickStart some time back and have been working to learn assembly. My purpose it to use it as a brushless DC motor controller. I actually had success of sorts but found that I need a feed back mechanism even if it is sensorless. This weekend I hope to incorporate Hall Effect transistors into my test motor and play with that. Also I put together an A to D converter and plan to use that as an input. I am not sure how yet but I know I will need to modulate the low set of power FETs to regulate the speed. So I will need to use the 8 bit digital output from the ADC as an input and use that to create a single modulated output (sounds simple enough). Honestly, I know I started out quite naive and there is a lot I still do not understand about the ESC and BLDC controllers but I have learned a lot in the past few months and feel I am on the right path. There are actually a lot of microcontrollers designed specifically for ESC but I bought a QuickStart board before I found out about this and believe that if nothing else I can learn a lot mucking around with it. - making the lights blink is cool :P...
A real problem I am having is that I run Linux exclusively on my laptop and cannot get the Propeller IDE to run on it. I use Precise Puppy which is Debian based but the IDE does not launch. I do not really have the enthusiasm to dig into that problem and will suffer using my desktop with Windows 7. But any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
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http://www.parallax.com/news/2015-02-26/download-new-book-jon-titus-experiments-propeller-quickstart
BTW, Welcome to the forums.
I will have to defer the Linux questions to others. I came spell Linux, but that's about it.
Study the book and come back and ask questions. We are a friendly crowd.
Electrodude - not squat. It installs and adds a shortcut on my menu. when I click on it - nothing - no message - nothing. I have not tried running it from the command line though. I might have time to mess with it this weekend.