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Internet Control of a Labview VI (Part I)

Introduction Labview from National Instruments (NI) is build upon a purely graphical, general-purpose programming language, G, with extensive libraries of functions, an integral compiler and debugging, and an application builder for stand-alone applications. The concept of VIs (Virtual Instruments), invented … Continue reading

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Access Control with RFID Tags

Introduction It is quite easy to read IDs of RFID tags, using Parallax’s serial or USB RFID card reader. If you have two RFID cards at least, and of course Parallax RFID reader, you can set up, without hassle, the … Continue reading

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Bluemote – remote control of a 8051 robot with bluetooth

About the author: Pedro Vicente, 21 years old,  is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering student at Institutto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. During the Summer of 2010 spent a month at ALIATRON as a trainee, when among other projects did … Continue reading

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Controlling a robot with bluetooth-enabled cell phone

Tested on Nokia N97 and Blackberry Bold 9700. Introduction After having recently designed a virtual gamepad to control a robot, making use of a serial bluetooth device, I thought why not do the same with a cell phone. My Nokia N97 … Continue reading

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Bluemote – A Virtual Gamepad for Bluetooth Control of a Robot

This application was born after a student trainee, Pedro Vicente, spent his Summer at my company Aliatron and did a technical project with a 8051-based robot “Robo-51” from Inex . Pedro has already published here in this blog, his work that is based on … Continue reading

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POV – Persistence of Vision

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina. A class of display device described as “POV” is one that composes an image by displaying … Continue reading

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