• UCI racing action from Lincoln, Nebraska in June 2018.
• Sensor signaling processing with RC filters (Updated 3/24/2022)
• Using filters to clean up knock sensor signals.
• Pre-charge Motor Circuit Demo for Solar Car. See below.
• Elithion Battery Managment Systems Resources and Pre-charge circuit design guide. See Solar & EV below for more!
• Added three Arduino sketches that show different methods of smoothing sensor data! (See Electronics & Microcontrollers below.)
• BAJA Crankshaft Position Sensor Analysis & Testing Report
• Spybot

• Study Group Home Page with featured tools and electronic equipment.
• Critter Controller Solution (See study group home page lesson 6)
• Understanding IR remote control of your walkers
• Arduino version sample programming code
• Human 4-bar linkage
• Getting to know the Parallax microcontroller board

EV & SOLAR CAR

• ExtremeKartz.Com batteries, motors, controllers and more!
• My Pre-Charge Motor Circuit demo I showed in class.
  • Elithion Battery Managment Systems Resources
  • Elithion Pre-Charge Circuit Article
  • AllTrax Article on EV contactors, resistors & diodes. (Thanks to Phil Chipman for sending this in.)
• Tad Pole Design (3-wheel)
• Solar Miner Car
• The Winning Solar Car SAE Book
• Motors overview article

SAE Mini Baja

• B&S Competition Video
• 2019 Video highlights!
• Crankshaft Position Sensor Report
• Briggs & Stratton Racing Engine Specs
• How CVTs work animation
• Setting up the ignition coil (The flywheel's magnet triggers the Magnetron coil just like I want to do with my crank sensor demo!)
• My Telemetry App for Windows 10 download.
  1. Save AS to your desktop. Folder name is "Baja Telemetry".
  2. Unzip on desktop and run setup.exe.
  3. Program will launch.
  4. App shows up on Windows menu and you can uninstall it from there. The app is installed as "XBEE_Telemetry" so choose that from "Apps & Features Menu" if you want to uninstall it.

Telemetry, CAN-BUS, & Data Acquisition

• Serial Communication
  • Protocol comparison
   
• CAN-BUS Facts & Demo Board
  • Layout
    • Each node must be within 30cm of the bus cable.
    • 1mb/sec is good for up to 40 meters.
  • Hall Sensor (RPM)
  • Arduino Receiver Code (2/8/2019)
  • Arduino Transmitter Code (2/8/2019)
    
• My CANBUS Reports: Using a Logic Analyzer
  • 1-My CANBUS Communications Article
  • 2-Serial communications: Bitshifting report
  • 3-Decoding multiple sensor readings
  • 4-Demo Board Decoded Scope Images
    
    
• My Jeep RPM images
  • Propscope (USB)
  • OWON Bench scope
  • Image of my setup with OBD-II breakout box, Code Reader, & scope.
• Raspberry Pi
  • Raspberry Pi Touch Screen Installation

Automotive Sensors & Diagnostics

• Updated report on sensor signaling processing with RC filters
• Low Pass filters and knock sensor signal processing
• BAJA Crankshaft Position Sensor Analysis Report

• Traditional vs Modern Ignition Systems Report

• How electronic ignition system works video

• Testing Modern Fuel Injection Report

• Examing CANBUS packets on my Jeep

• DECODE CANBUS with the PICO SCOPE

Electronics & Microcontrollers

• Arduino
  • Sample code for filtering sensor data
• Peltier Devices & animation