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Post by Rowan on Aug 30, 2018 8:41:10 GMT
Hey Steve,
That's looking more promising, It's successfully compiling, but when it tries to upload it's not finding the board. Generally this happens if the wrong port is selected. If you unplug the arduino, then in the Arduino IDE go to Tools>Port and note what ports are available, then plug the arduino back in and repeat, a new port should have appeared. Select that one and try uploading again?
I'll message you my number now - give me a call if that doesn't work.
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Post by Rowan on Aug 30, 2018 12:45:29 GMT
If anyone is having the same issues, Steve's one above was that the right COM port wasn't selected. Fixed now
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Post by steve on Sept 18, 2018 20:13:23 GMT
I have been looking for part two of the current sensor video on You tube , where might it be ? Thanks Stevewebb
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Post by Rowan on Sept 19, 2018 7:59:43 GMT
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Post by littlejo44 on Sept 4, 2019 18:15:02 GMT
Hi there.. I'm John and, as one of the Grandparents, I help to support 'The Pod Movement' team from Chipping Sodbury School.. I find myself on racedays, glued to our telemetry giving a minute by minute 'commentary' on how I think the car is performing. Our telemetry is a very basic direct radio link with the car, into a laptop..but it works! I'm new to this forum, and to the telemetry system you have described at length on the net.. Having only seen the article for the first time today, I have yet to really get involved, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate all involved in the production and presentation of the practical information you have made available to the rest of us. It is truly an excellent piece of work. The system you describe looks to be ideal for the kids to learn from and employ. I'm sure, in time, you will get questions trom me, but for now, many thanks. Regards John Rees, Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol.
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Post by Rowan on Sept 5, 2019 11:48:13 GMT
Hi John, thank you for the kind words! Telemetry makes the race so much more interesting for those in the pits - I think it increases stress levels as well though... We used to use a radio link from the car but always struggled with range. The phone is far more reliable on tracks that have signal, but there is still the odd track with none. If you already have a system that sends data out through serial (ZigBee or similar?) It's probably not too much work to swap that for a Bluetooth module and connect it to a phone with our app. You might well be able to do both if you have a spare serial on the microcontroller. Happy to help if you want any assistance with it
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Post by keduro on Sept 30, 2019 17:17:50 GMT
Rowan and Team ..... Hello. I have planning for some time to join the forum and write a post thanking you for the great job you have done with the eChook! I'm one of the mentors working with the Banchory Academy team who have built and run the "50 Shades of Green" car. In the 2018 season the car placed last and second last in our local Grampian Transport Museum heat :-(. Back in those BT (before telemetry) days the testing approach was basically make changes to the car and see how long it would run with a fresh set of batteries! This year, with the benefit of the eChook, we can now see in detail how the car is performing and it has allowed us to make and evaluate changes much more quickly. Results - we won both races at the 2019 Grampian Transport Museum Heat, and had a 1st and 2nd at the recent East Fortune heat. We also received the Siemens Digital Award for our telemetry which we had showing on a big screen in the back of our van in the pits (drew quite a bit of attention). The pupils involved (and the mentors) are very excited at having qualified for Silverstone, and we are now tweaking the car further and planning our trip down south next month! Our use of the data provided by the eChook has matured from fighting with Excel to process and chart thousands of rows of data, to uploading the data to a database to allow post event analysis, to now capturing the live dweets from the car into a database from which we can provide a real time dashboard showing how the car is performing, charting trends in the data, and predicting how long the batteries will last and race distance. I have attached a few screenshots of our screens (synthetic data). Confession - although I have been watching the eChook site and forum for some time I only recently discovered your Live Data demo pages (I had assumed that the Live Data on the web page menu bar would take me to the same place as the "View Live Data" link on the home page). There are quite a few similarities between your Live Data and our screens :-). Starting after Silverstone the team are going to embark on building a new car. Telemetry will be built in from day 1. If you are going to be at Silverstone it would be great to meet up and exchange a few ideas! I'm also going to go post a reply on the Arduino Code thread on the forum - I have a couple of corrections / suggestions for changes to the Arduino code. Once again, many thanks for making the eChook available. It provides a huge leg up in understanding how a car is performing. Best Regards, Keith Banchory Academy, Aberdeenshire. Attachments:
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Post by Rowan on Sept 30, 2019 18:17:35 GMT
Hi Keith, that is wonderful to hear, and congratulations on the race results! I love what you've done with the telemetry too, both that you've set up a site and database for it and that you're showing the data publicly. One of the features I'd really like to get working is a spectator page that just shows all the eChook cars location on a map of the track that everyone can access and watch. How have you implemented your interface and database? The beta live data site has stalled a little - we were finding a fair few bugs and as we're not actually racing a car any more testing is difficult - I've spent a lot of time walking around a park trying to emulate laps and reproduce errors! The result is I'm having a rethink about how it should work and possibly simplifying it a bit. However PM me if you want an invite to the beta app, the live data site works unless you're using the lap counting feature and you can still use dweet at the same time. I should be at Silverstone and an always up for a chat. Need to check how many days of holiday I have left... Thanks for sharing, and I'll take a look at the Arduino suggestions
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Post by DGS on Sept 17, 2020 9:33:35 GMT
Hello everyone! I run a project in Brighton that works with disadvantaged young people. We entered an F24 kit car for the first time in 2019 and this year secured funding for a second car and to work with a lot more young people. Like most teams this year has been a strange one but we're rushing to get our cars ready for Goodwood in October. We actually had an eChook kit last year but didn't set it up and in hindsight this was a bit too ambitious for our first races. Found this forum after a few days trying to work out how we are going to hookup the eChook Nano and a Porter speed controller to build on what we did last year. Already discovered some useful information so thanks for that. I'm looking forward to helping our young people step into the more technical side of things in seasons to come.
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Post by Rowan on Sept 17, 2020 10:11:35 GMT
Welcome! It's certainly been an odd year, good luck getting everything ready for Goodwood Hopefully most of the information for hooking up your eChook is in the documentation, but feel free to ask any questions here.
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Post by Rowan on Sept 21, 2020 14:10:34 GMT
Apologies to anyone who saw that last spam post before I deleted it. Unfortunately we're getting increasing spam posts that are increasingly inappropriate, all through guest accounts, so I'm going to disable the 'post as guest' feature on the forum - hopefully it won't put genuine posters off posting!
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Post by peteroh on Jun 8, 2022 16:45:50 GMT
Hi, We are a new team. Myself and my two grandchildren Alex (13) and Christopher (10) Our build is the result of a "what shall we do in lock down?" challenge. And oh how challenging. Whilst Ok with the mechanical the electronics and control is a dark art! So purchase seems to be our route to survival and sanity. We have bought a Porter 10 and an echook. BUT can someone advise/help how we can get these to work together - please. Look forward to being part of the community
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Post by Rowan on Jun 8, 2022 18:37:35 GMT
Hi Peter, welcome! Any photos of the car? Rather than sending the details as an email I should probably actually do a post here on it...
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Post by peteroh on Jun 10, 2022 11:28:02 GMT
Thanks that would be helpful, I guess we are not the only ones looking at this. Happy to share a few snaps- but just about to send to Powder Coating - but as soon as everything is back we will post (and of the team too!!!)
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Post by peteroh on Jun 27, 2022 17:16:19 GMT
Hi Rowan, Just wondering if you have had a chance to look at this issue (linking echook with Porter 10) ? Many thanks, Peter
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