Hello everyone, my name is Ayman and I am doing my Final Year Project under the supervision of Dr. Shawn Tan. In my first blog post I will describe my project, what I have been doing in the past weeks, and what I will do next. The first paragraph is Read more…
Following on from the problems faced during the last weeks of the project, the attempts of hacking the toy quad-copter was abandoned to allow for the completion of the project in time. It was quite clear that the envisioned system would not be successfully completed within the time scope of Read more…
Continuing on from the long-standing attempts at hacking the quadcopter remote communication, a few methods were used to find out exactly why the communication wouldn’t work. These methods and the resulting outcomes are discussed in this week’s post. Non-functional NRF24L01+ modules: The 10 NRF modules acquired earlier seem to be Read more…
Following last week’s information on the communication data coming from the Quadcopter remote, the next logical step was to replicate it so that the Arduino can be used to communicate the quadcopter instead. Some interesting findings led to a better understanding of the communication between this particular Remote Control and Read more…
Considering the issues with color detection method in the previous section method used for the image processing section of the project, the Image segmentation method was tested out. Considering that the tracking part of the system once the object is identified, the focus was given on understanding, implementing and testing Read more…
Almost all of the week was spent trying to read the SPI bus on the Quadcopter remote control to try to understand as well as decipher the communication protocols and the reading addresses for the Quadcopter. There were some useful reading from the Quadcopter remote which are discussed in detail Read more…
It has been a long time since my last blog post. My progress has been slow over the past 4 months but the important thing is that I’m back in Malaysia and have gotten back to work on the project at hand. Since my last post, a lot of aspects Read more…
In this post I’ll explain how I debug the new core of AEMB, and the current bug that I’m facing. Debugging the CPU takes place using the demo program originally attached with AEMB. The waveform generated from the demo program running on the new CPU is compared with the waveform Read more…
In the previous post I’ve explained how the threading model of the new AEMB. In this post I will explain all the changes to the old AEMB core that were necessary to accommodate a coarse grained model and sum up with an analysis of how the new threading model affects Read more…
Finally I’ve changed the threading model of the AEMB. While some instructions are still buggy and hence the demo program doesn’t run properly, I still want to use this post and the next one to explain the changes I’ve made so far. In this post I’ll explain about the design Read more…