The Web is dedicated to the course on embedded system at the University of Cape Coast. Ghana, held in 2017 for the first time. The course is dedicated to data acquisition...
Interfacing Scilab to the Raspberry Pi or the Arduino Introduction Scilab is a system for open source program for numerical mathematics quite similar to Matlab even...
Sensor Kit The sensor kit contains 37 different types of sensors and actuators. For most of these one can find example applications in either the wiringpi of the pigpio...
Sensors with serial interface There are 2 sensors with analogue to digital conversion already implemented with the chip: the DS18B20 digital thermometer from...
A serial protocol to control the movement of the robot. Setting up the HC 05 as a master Before being able to send any message from the Arduino Nano, acting as the...
Setting Up Twiki Server 1 Install apache2 and php5sudo apt get install apache2 php5 1 open a browser and type localhost to check if apache is really installed...
Servo Motor Basically is a regular DC motor, with the output shaft feeding into a potentiometer, which is in turn connected to some control circuitry. The control...
Preparing Ubuntu on the PC for Raspberry Pi development Exercises: Create your own user and add him to the sudo group (usermod a G sudo yourUserName).Go through...
Session 2: Basic C programming PC systems: Check if new updates have arrived and if yes install them on all machines apt update apt upgrade Install gnuplot...
Compilation tools: Editor, Compiler, Linker, Debugger, Make Exercise 1: check the student exercises Go through all the student exercises and check they work as expected...
Setting up the Raspberry Pis We will have 2 series of Raspberry Pis to set up: The ones for the student exercises The ones for the Open Day For the Open...
Controlling the Arduino LED via Bluetooth First I connected up the HC 06 with the Arduino. The obvious way to do this is to use the Rx and Tx pins on the Arduino and...
Solutions to test 2 The sine function Here is the source code of the 3 functions of mysin. https://iotworkshop.africa/pub/Embedded Systems/SolutionsToTest2/mysin...
Solutions to the exercises This is the page to which the solutions will be uploaded. These will mainly consist of gzipped tar files which you can download and unpack...
Specialized Switches There are more types of switches reacting on different external stimulations. The shock modules There are two different modules reacting on mechanical...
Setting up a Custom Splash Screen for the Boot Menu I found the file 800px Cape Coast Castle Balcony 02 Sept 2012.jpg on the Internet and I converted it into a png...
Stepping Motor Exercises Goal: A stepping motor is a device which is often used when a precise amount of movement is required: an exact angle of a an exact position...
Switches There is quite a variety of different types if switches starting from a simple push button to reed switches which are sensitive to magnetic field, mercury...
Installing an Ubuntu System on an external USB drive and making it bootable As a first step when preparing a development environment for the Raspberry Pi one must...