<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:32:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Be Creative, Be Innovative!</title><description>YESTERDAY WAS A STORY, TODAY IS A GIFT, AND TOMORROW IS A NEW HOPE! &lt;br&gt; So dare yourself to be SOMEONE instead of NOBODY!</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (ekawahyu)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-5863003245528930167</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-25T23:20:38.046+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Robotics</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Electronics</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>R/C Modelling</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Interfacing</category><title>[HOWTO] Hacking Bioloid CM-5/Direct AVRISP Programmable</title><description>&lt;h3&gt;

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What is the point of hacking it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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Bioloid is a very impressive robotic kits for education purposes or just as a hobby. This robotics kit comes as parts instead of assembled in the form of a robot. With the given manual in the box, you can start to construct robotic arm, biped, or humanoid as seen in the picture. I even improvised it by replacing the head with a Logitech webcam with the hope that I can implement embedded vision algorithm. But of course after knowing what actually is inside the CM-5 (the main controller) I need to replace it with something more powerful like Beagleboard. Anyway, that would be another story and another project. Now I am going to show you how to hack the CM-5 box, so that you can directly put C code into the flash memory of the microcontroller. By the way, you might need to have AVRISP programmer since it embeds Atmel ATMega128.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I got an old laptop from the lab where I work and this old and poor laptop is dying. The case is broken here and there but the hardisk still spins and almost everything works like normal. It is ACER Travelmate 350 series, Travelmate 351TE with 700MHz Intel processor and 256MB of RAM. I managed to install Slitaz2.0 and played a video to demonstrate that it is still worth it as a video player.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The main problem with installing Windows or Linux on this machine is the lack of built-in optical drive. It doesn't boot from USB flash or any USB peripheral such as CDROM drive. Since I don't have the docking station, the only way to install Slitaz is by removing the hardisk out and place it into a USB external HDD case. Then I used another computer to install Slitaz and GRUB onto it. Voilaaa, you can see the result in the video below.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRsU_LO0bWQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cRsU_LO0bWQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I keep the original OS intact and I cannott show you the performance comparison between those two since the Windows probably is full of program (and some viruses) which shows slower performance. I don't want to spend more time to install Windows that would make things become complicated since it won't work without built-in optical drive. However, it can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-1032228653186422601?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2009/06/celebrity-look-alike-my-female-version.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-1730295580142790920</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-22T23:31:43.937+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Others</category><title>Celebrity Look-alike</title><description>&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com/collage" title="MyHeritage - free family trees, genealogy and face recognition" alt="MyHeritage - free family trees, genealogy and face recognition" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://storage.myheritagefiles.com/S/storage/site1/files/26/84/82/268482_9498747995c2a4qnglyr27.JPG" width="302" border="0" height="342" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.myheritagefiles.com/videos/Q/28/fc1m26_6323233ae5c2a4a785un26" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="340" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com/"&gt;MyHeritage&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com/"&gt;Family tree&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com/genealogy"&gt;Genealogy&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://celebrity.myheritage.com/celebrities"&gt;Celebrity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com/collage" title="MyHeritage - free family trees, genealogy and face recognition" alt="MyHeritage - free family trees, genealogy and face recognition" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://storage.myheritagefiles.com/Q/storage/site1/files/26/96/82/269682_9430980906c2a4q7g9e710.JPG" width="302" height="342" border="0" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;table height="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.myheritagefiles.com/videos/S/28/mb4922_832365a106c2a438pq3822" width="340" height="340" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com"  &gt;MyHeritage&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://celebrity.myheritage.com/celebrity-morph"  &gt;Celebrity Morph&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.myheritage.com/page/family-history"  &gt;Family history&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You come to my blog so far because you probably have been trying hard to install Slitaz 1.0 with no luck. The same thing happened to me, everytime I run the installer, it gave me an error message and dismount the /media/cdrom automatically. The have it fixed already, but anyway if you want to know how everything works you can try the walk-through below. I write down step by step here what I did on this wonderful Slitaz distro on my OQO model 01+ UMPC. Instead of editing slitaz-installer under /usr/bin, we can edit /usr/bin/slitaz-installer.sh.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;First, you have to have OQO (of course), external CD/DVD ROM, and usb stick. Make sure you have a copy of slitaz-1.0.iso in your usb stick. Boot your OQO from your external drive, choose the language as your preference, keyboard in US layout, accept the sound card, and choose the display as 800x480 24 bit. That is the first step of booting. Since I didn't want to be bothered with entering root password again and again while installing, I entered as user root with password root. Be careful when you log in as a root!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Second, insert your usb stick and mount it under /mnt with mount /dev/sda1 /mnt. Then mount the slitaz iso image under /media/cdrom using mount -o loop /mnt/slitaz-1.0.iso /media/cdrom.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Third, edit /usr/bin/slitaz-installer.sh and comment these lines to avoid the installer to search for CD/DVD ROM:&lt;/p&gt;
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# Mount target device and cdrom.&lt;br&gt;
# mount_devices()&lt;br&gt;
# {&lt;br&gt;
#     echo ""&lt;br&gt;
#     mkdir -p $TARGET_ROOT /media/cdrom&lt;br&gt;
#     echo "Montage de la partitions et du cdrom..."&lt;br&gt;
#     # Mount points can be already used.&lt;br&gt;
#     if mount | grep $TARGET_ROOT; then&lt;br&gt;
#         umount $TARGET_ROOT&lt;br&gt;
#     fi&lt;br&gt;
#     if mount | grep /media/cdrom; then&lt;br&gt;
#         umount /media/cdrom&lt;br&gt;
#     fi&lt;br&gt;
#     mount $TARGET_DEV $TARGET_ROOT&lt;br&gt;
#     mount -t iso9660 $CDROM /media/cdrom || exit 1&lt;br&gt;
# }&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Fourth, go to /usr/bin and run slitaz-installer.sh. Follow the on screen instruction and choose your partition to install. That's all! Cute, small, and faster than the original Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Things to do:&lt;/p&gt;
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1. Get the wireless to work.&lt;br&gt;
2. Get the bluetooth to work.&lt;br&gt;
2. Get the tablet and stylus to work.&lt;br&gt;
3. Put in standby when closing the lid.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reading and I appreciate any comment and help.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Readings:&lt;/p&gt;
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http://www.slitaz.org/&lt;br&gt;
http://forum.slitaz.org/viewtopic.php?id=422&lt;br&gt;
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/&lt;br&gt;
http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/linux/&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;It is not difficult at all to replace the spark plug, what you actually need is the manual, the tools, and confidence that you can make it!&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt;I remove the seat and lift up the fuel tank. Under the fuel tank lies the air filter.
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       &lt;td&gt;After removing the fuel tank and air filter tank, you can see carburetor, the engine, etc. I look further up to find a groove on the top of the engine where the spark plug is sticked into. There is only one spark plug needed for a single cylinder engine.&lt;/p&gt;
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       &lt;td&gt;There it goes the groove. The spark plug is hidden inside. I remove the electrical cable fed to the spark plug and insert a tool to loosen it.&lt;/p&gt;
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       &lt;td&gt;What covered your spark plug and the color tell you what happened inside the engine. A good engine should give you a dry dark brown colored spark plug. In my case, it is a bit wet since the motorbike is quite old. This is why I need to change it, otherwise I would not be able to race on the road at 200 km/h! ( kidding ;) )&lt;/p&gt;
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       &lt;td&gt;I re-gap the new spark plug, but since I don't have micrometer to measure the exact gap, I use the old spark plug as reference. &lt;/p&gt;
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       &lt;td&gt;The gap is perfect! Now it is time to plug it back to the engine.&lt;/p&gt;
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       &lt;td&gt;I start the engine for 5 minutes to make the new spark plug gets used to with the combustion. Put the air filter back, the fuel tank, and the seat. I am ready to go around and speeding!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Original Power Supply Fails Every Two Months&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;OQO model 01+ is really an amazing UMPC ever built among other competitors in the world. It comes with Windows XP Professional or Tablet PC Edition and under both version of Windows the stylus pen works just fine with the 5 inches LCD touch screen. Inside 30 GB of 1.8 inch hard drive, I could install both Linux and Windows using dual boot mode. While I am writing this article, the latest OQO model e2 is even more amazing than this. It has much nicer keyboard appearance with back light that glows in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I bought my OQO on November 2007 and it has one year warranty for service and part replacement. THREE TIMES of power supply failure had happened ever since within 6 months. At the beginning, I thought it was my mistake which made the power supply got broken. Anyway, I have the warranty, so I sent the power supply back to the reseller and they replaced it with a brand new one. Up to today, I got it replaced twice from them, and strangely, again, it got broken for the third time last week. I could send it back as many times as I want to the reseller since I am still holding the warranty. But what would happen to my OQO after the warranty is over? I will have no option by that time except to buy the original power supply for over 150 euro EVERY TWO MONTHS just to make my OQO works. Wow, that would be a really pain in the ass!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I wrote an email to the OQO's customer service, asking for solution except repeatably get the same replacement from them or their reseller. However, they said that this OQO model 01+ is now a discontinued product. Moreover, when I asked about the power supply electrical connection of their discontinued product, it seems that it is still a "continued proprietary" of OQO and they are not willing to share it with me even though I wanted to use it for my research project.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hack it! Hack it, Eka! That sentence has been there in my mind and I think it is time for me to move my ass and get it works with my own hacked power supply because I still want to see my UMPC to work and not yet ready to give it up or upgrade to the latest model e2. TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE, PLEASE DON'T CALL OQO FOR ANY SUPPORT FROM THEM AFTER YOU HACK YOUR UMPC AND DO REMEMBER THAT YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! I am here to provide you with information on how I got it works for my OQO model 01+. I believe that different model could have different configuration. You could send me comments or email if you have problem with your power supply or if you have a different model of OQO than mine. I don't guarantee that I could help you to solve your problem, but you have nothing to lose to try, right?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;OQO without Battery and Power Supply&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmPPx9Lh-I/AAAAAAAAAHE/HrS_GylFCwQ/s1600-h/DSC04236small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmPPx9Lh-I/AAAAAAAAAHE/HrS_GylFCwQ/s200/DSC04236small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213355544928815074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
First unplug the power supply and remove the battery from OQO. If you don't know how to remove the battery, please read the manual. You will see a connector shown by figure on the right. What I did was measuring using Ohm meter to find out about what and where does it go between each of them. It turned out that A and B are connected, it didn't surprise me that both of them are connected to the body as well. So A and B obviously are the reference point (the ground).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmS79E-cdI/AAAAAAAAAHM/27sZBgM98Pw/s1600-h/DSC04228small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmS79E-cdI/AAAAAAAAAHM/27sZBgM98Pw/s200/DSC04228small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213359602363429330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Still on the OQO body, there is a male connector goes to the power supply. I measured this connector using ohm meter. It turned out that 2 and 4 are tied together, and also 3 and 5 are tied. Why would they put FIVE pins connector if at the end they tie the two of them into one? Wouldn't it be more convenient to put less pins for the power supply? Hey, OQO, listen up! What were you doing guys out there?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Resistance measurement was continued between connector at the back of OQO with the power supply male inlet. It seemed that A, B, 2, and 4 are connected together. This is very obvious and I could conclude that this is exactly where I would put the ground of my home made power supply. Then, pin number 1 on the inlet male connector is connected to D on the back of OQO.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So how to power up this OQO by my home made power supply? This is the possible configuration of the male connector, (1) is VCC1, (2) is GND, and (3) is VCC2. Pin (4) is connected to GND and pin (5) is connected to VCC2. So far I didn't know how much is VCC1 and VCC2, but I knew that it needs two different voltages to power it up because they are not tied together.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;The Original Power Supply&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmZ3UkpzZI/AAAAAAAAAHU/uhr4ThGgLrU/s1600-h/DSC04230small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmZ3UkpzZI/AAAAAAAAAHU/uhr4ThGgLrU/s200/DSC04230small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213367219352358290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Luckily, when I received my second replacement of power supply, I did measured the outputs from the female connector on the power supply. First I tried to measure it using Ohm meter to see any connected pin while it is turned off. Only point b and e that I found are connected together (this could be the ground). Then I plugged the power supply and proceeded to voltage measuring. Point a is 5 volts, point d is also 5 volts, instead point c is 6 volts. So, by far, we know that VCC1 = 6 volts and VCC2 = 5 volts! Great! Then, I moved on!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Windows' Power Management Behavior&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmeHkxv86I/AAAAAAAAAHc/rr-MbXO36Lw/s1600-h/DSC04235small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmeHkxv86I/AAAAAAAAAHc/rr-MbXO36Lw/s200/DSC04235small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213371896626672546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
I explored more on OQO behavior by putting a piece of paper to isolate each battery connector at a time and put the battery back to OQO. I plugged the power supply and here what I found when I turned it on.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isolate C with a piece of paper&lt;/span&gt;

Windows doesn't know the status of the battery, but OQO works with/without power supply attached.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isolate D with a piece of paper&lt;/span&gt;

Battery doesn't recharge anymore, but OQO works with/without power supply attached.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isolate E with a piece of paper&lt;/span&gt;

Battery is charging, battery status can be read, but OQO doesn't work without power suppy attached.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From this behavioral test, I could guess that C is the charging/full indicator from the battery to Windows, D is the charging port directly from 6 volts of power supply, and E is the main positive pole of the battery.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Hypotheses&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;1. Lithium Polymer battery nominal voltage is 3.7 volts. Thus the battery may recharge using 5 volts source instead of 6 volts.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;2. We may simplify the power supply design by using single and uniform power source.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Experimental Test&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq9ltak4bI/AAAAAAAAAIM/RKNNvzWkAoI/s1600-h/DSC04270small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq9ltak4bI/AAAAAAAAAIM/RKNNvzWkAoI/s200/DSC04270small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213687974178644402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq9tQBeIcI/AAAAAAAAAIU/_0ZZdkqAjhg/s1600-h/DSC04252small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq9tQBeIcI/AAAAAAAAAIU/_0ZZdkqAjhg/s200/DSC04252small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213688103727669698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
The given specification of the power supply is 4.8 volts and 2.5 Amperes. I know it is not easy to find a switching power supply as needed so I did some experiments by powering up my OQO with a stable desktop power supply. As I described above, I powered OQO with VCC not to all of 5 pins but only 3 of them. I took 3 single sockets from jumper cables and soldered them as seen in the picture. The configuration is VCC - GND - VCC. To isolate each of them properly, I put a thermoplastic wire insulation a.k.a. heat-shrink tubing. The experiment went very well when I applied VCC between 4.5 volts to 5 volts. The drawback of using low voltage is a slow charging, but it saves more energy since the current withdrawn by OQO is less. I don't suggest you to apply 6 volts (I didn't try it too) since it works just fine with 5 volts. Make sure you measure your desktop power supply before you attach it to your OQO!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq8BYO4-qI/AAAAAAAAAH0/ghWNUgTwAdY/s1600-h/DSC04271small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq8BYO4-qI/AAAAAAAAAH0/ghWNUgTwAdY/s200/DSC04271small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213686250505566882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq8QV23q1I/AAAAAAAAAH8/XA_rRUEpkKY/s1600-h/DSC04253small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFq8QV23q1I/AAAAAAAAAH8/XA_rRUEpkKY/s200/DSC04253small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213686507565984594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
It is possible to replace OQO power supply with a single 5 volts switching power supply from the market (in my case, I use 4.5 volts instead). I use variable switching power supply &lt;a href="http://www.elettronicaetruria.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=226"&gt;Accord PDS115&lt;/a&gt;, but you may use any power supply as long as it could provide continuous electric current at least 2.5 Amperes. The output's characteristic of PDS115 power supply are 3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9, and 12 volts within a different range of current withdrawn. Complete specification of Accord PDS115 can be found &lt;a href="http://www.elettronicaetruria.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=226"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The advantages of using a switching power supply are small in size and of course light weight. It is even smaller and lighter than the original OQO power supply.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Future Work&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFrEXviThEI/AAAAAAAAAIc/CI842aqizjc/s1600-h/DSC04280small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFrEXviThEI/AAAAAAAAAIc/CI842aqizjc/s200/DSC04280small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213695430811157570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Since I still have my warranty until November 2008, I won't cut and take the connector out of the original power supply. If OQO doesn't even bother to fix the problem for OQO model 01+ power supply by the end of November 2008, then I will cut the connector and put it to Accord PDS115. For those of you who are not patient enough to wait ;), the picture shows you how to connect your power supply to the connector taken from OQO power supply. This way you will have a very secure connection compared to the home made one. I will update my blog as soon as I cut my connector guys!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hope this article helps you out who experiences the same problem as I do and I open to any suggestion and comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-2879015171204318149?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2008/06/howto-hacking-power-supply-for-umpc-oqo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/SFmPPx9Lh-I/AAAAAAAAAHE/HrS_GylFCwQ/s72-c/DSC04236small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>57</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-5056028492226151093</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-22T23:35:08.655+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Others</category><title>A Woman is Lost and Two Guys in A Laboratory</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello everyone... long time since last time I updated my blog. I was so busy with the daily activities but I have a quite strong reason why I have been absent for so long :) &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Recently I surfed on AsiaFriendFinder and met a very fascinating blog written by victorylee0516 (her ID) and I am afraid that you would not be able to see her blog if you are not a registered user. Anyway, she posted a joke there which is A Woman is Lost. This joke is quite political, funny, and it turned out that a light bulb was flashing on my brain all of that sudden to write a slightly similar one. I posted my joke as a comment and hilariously everyone loved it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely my first funniest joke I've ever made in my life that would probably travel around the world and arrives someday to my email. By the time I receive it then I know that it has become popular.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I won't forget the moment I posted this joke and would like to remember this day when I feel happy to see everyone posted comments on my joke. So here I post both of the joke for you to send to everyone (if you like it) and for me to remember it for all my life.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A WOMAN IS LOST (posted by victorylee0516)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect ME to solve your problem. You're in EXACTLY the same position you were in before we met, but somehow now, it's MY fault!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TWO GUYS IN A LABORATORY (posted by ekawahyu)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A young man entered an electronic laboratory and met a guy sitting on the workbench with a lot of instruments around him. Wondering of what he was doing he asked this guy, "excuse me, what are these instruments measuring?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The guy replied, "Well, I can tell you that 1.2 A of electric current passes through this light bulb on 220 working voltage. It produces heat upto 45 degree of Celcius and my data acquisition card tells me that the frequency of the electric generator is exactly 50Hz. But I don't know for how long this light bulb will last. It has been 5 hours and 23 minutes since I turned this light bulb on".&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The man said, "Ah, you must be a PhD Student then".&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I am", the guy replied, "how do you know?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The man replied, "Because you collect data and all information of this light bulb, calculate everything, compare them, but you still don't know how to conclude and predict the lifetime of this light but, do you? You are wasting your time there".&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The guy said, "Well you must be a Professor then"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I am", the man replied, "how do you know?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The guy said, "Because you are just interested to the conclusion and somehow when the conclusion DOESN'T PLEASE you, I have to READJUST these instruments a little bit so that it shows the value that you WANTED. And now, you blame me for wasting my time here in front of these instruments. How can I CONCLUDE something from instruments that show me INCORRECT values?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(No offense to Professors, ok? I just write down what is in my mind right now )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-5056028492226151093?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2008/02/woman-is-lost-and-two-guys-are-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-3224272441096180951</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-22T23:35:59.161+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Others</category><title>New Year's Eve 2008 at Colosseum in Rome</title><description>&lt;p&gt;HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE!!!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I went with some friends to Colosseum in Rome to see a concert on an open stage of Georgia (Italian famous singer). Watch the video guys, because I have no word to describe ;) Ciaooo...

&lt;p&gt;Few fireworks before the countdown begins.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Q11Q8FA3TA"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Q11Q8FA3TA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The countdown and champagne shower :) I had to cover my head and my digital camera under my jacket to avoid of getting wet, but in fact I got some on my hair and now I have to tell you that it is really sticky on your hair.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-6N2-o4skFY"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-6N2-o4skFY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I shook my butt for sure on DJ's session, that's why the video taken is not steady :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Py7WayQj_u0"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Py7WayQj_u0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Anca Simioniuc and Luca Gerardi for asking me to come. Again HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 TO ALL OF YOU!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-3224272441096180951?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-years-eve-in-rome.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-5972149238285099360</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-18T18:42:32.146+01:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Multimedia</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Internet</category><title>Online Video Downloader and Converter</title><description>&lt;p&gt;While I was helping my friend to download video from youtube, I found something really interesting new stuff. We don't need to install anything in our computer. We can download and convert the video from youtube by using ONLINE TOOLS only! Yes, online tools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The video downloader can be found in here:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.videodl.org"&gt;http://www.videodl.org&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And the media converter can be found in here:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.media-convert.com"&gt;http://www.media-convert.com&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The steps are easy, as easy as 123, here they are:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Open the video on youtube that you intended to download.
&lt;li&gt;Open the video downloader link above.
&lt;li&gt;Open the media converter link above.
&lt;li&gt;Copy the address of youtube video from its address bar and paste it into video downloader.
&lt;li&gt;Click "get it" and in few seconds it will give you a download link under.
&lt;li&gt;Click and save it in .flv format in your hardisk.
&lt;li&gt;Go to media converter and upload the downloaded video and choose the output format.
&lt;li&gt;Click "ok" and wait till the process to finish.
&lt;li&gt;Voila! Media converter will provide you with a link to the converted video!
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It's easy, isn't it? Try it and from now on, you can download and convert video whenever and from wherever you are as long as you have internet connection. Ciaooo...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-5972149238285099360?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2007/12/online-video-downloader-and-converter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-8932980312241728746</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-22T23:36:58.016+02:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>R/C Modelling</category><title>Globo Electric Mini-Copter (Mini-Heli) on My Palm</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Two days ago, I bought an electric mini-heli for 14,90 euro at Carrefour. It was surprised me when I saw what is written on the box "volo veramente!" in Italian which means "I fly for real!" The product finishing may not be so good, but for around 15 euro price of an electric mini-heli plus 2 channels infrared remote control, this thing is worth to buy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TbLMLivhI/AAAAAAAAADw/1BuBByvn-PU/s1600-h/DSC04333.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TbLMLivhI/AAAAAAAAADw/1BuBByvn-PU/s320/DSC04333.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144477659658632722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The mini-heli is intended for indoor sport but I have to admit that my bedroom is too small to be categorized as indoor. It was pure my fault to cause it crashed to the window frame and broke the balancing rod. I had to fix it many times, it is not easy to avoid objects in my bedroom. It crashes the window, the wall, hits the ceiling and vertically drops to the floor. Even once it almost crashed onto my house-mate's head (ouch...).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some pictures below are close-up from the heli before it was totally broken on the balancing rod. To you guys who are interested in aeromodelling I am sure you would love to see this.&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4Z-vsLivqI/AAAAAAAAAFc/it3N5hmsqjU/s1600-h/DSC04335.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4Z-vsLivqI/AAAAAAAAAFc/it3N5hmsqjU/s200/DSC04335.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153946181350637218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4Z_CsLivrI/AAAAAAAAAFk/9mPaia5SadI/s1600-h/DSC04336.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4Z_CsLivrI/AAAAAAAAAFk/9mPaia5SadI/s200/DSC04336.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153946507768151730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is the first modification... be ready... Since this heli is intended to be played indoor, I decided to power the remote control using a power supply instead of 6 pieces of AA batteries. One thing that missed on it, is the connector. So I made a hole on the top-right side and put a female-RCA connector on the remote control and solder a small adapter from RCA to standard socket of the power supply. Then I attached 9 volts from DC Variable Power Supply. Take a look at pictures below to see the modification I made, pretty cool huh!&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aCvsLivwI/AAAAAAAAAGM/X9Nbl0NTLrg/s1600-h/DSC04326.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aCvsLivwI/AAAAAAAAAGM/X9Nbl0NTLrg/s200/DSC04326.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153950579397148418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aDEMLivyI/AAAAAAAAAGc/yqWNaerOdv4/s1600-h/DSC04329.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aDEMLivyI/AAAAAAAAAGc/yqWNaerOdv4/s200/DSC04329.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153950931584466722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now here we are at the second modification that I made, fixing the broken balancing rod! The problem was at the join between rods that made of plastic. At the beginning I fixed it by melting it down using soldering iron. But after several times it seemed that it has lost its strength. I took one paper clip, stretch it straight, and use this one to replace the carbon rod. The weight is slightly heavy compared to carbon rod but it is fine. So I inserted the paper clip and bent it as seen in the picture and made some nodes. The nodes are made of a black thread. So, a box of paper clip and a roll of thread would probably cost you of less than 1 euro ;) So, the heli now has a second life!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Before modification - balancing rod looked like below.&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aILsLiv0I/AAAAAAAAAGs/Np6UTnexX9w/s1600-h/DSC04345.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aILsLiv0I/AAAAAAAAAGs/Np6UTnexX9w/s200/DSC04345.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153956557991624514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;After modification - "paper clip" rod ;) and it works even better! By the way, the brass mass on both tips, I took them from the previous balancing rod. You may click the pictures to get high resolution ones, but I must warn you that they are in MB size.&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aJpcLiv2I/AAAAAAAAAG8/UkQG7rw3F8Q/s1600-h/DSC04396.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R4aJpcLiv2I/AAAAAAAAAG8/UkQG7rw3F8Q/s200/DSC04396.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153958168604360546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The video shows you on how smooth the flight is after I fixed and modified the balancing rod to "paper clip" rod. It is even more controllable than before.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c2MCRCPhrjI"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c2MCRCPhrjI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-8932980312241728746?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2007/12/globo-electric-mini-copter-mini-heli-on.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TbLMLivhI/AAAAAAAAADw/1BuBByvn-PU/s72-c/DSC04333.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-4621269850377047974</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-16T09:35:40.880+01:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Electronics</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Computer Programming</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>R/C Modelling</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Interfacing</category><title>Smart Car version 1.3</title><description>&lt;h3&gt;Overview&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OvTsLivWI/AAAAAAAAACY/O_GVf8ryXGg/s1600-h/smart01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OvTsLivWI/AAAAAAAAACY/O_GVf8ryXGg/s320/smart01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144147952199187810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Smart (&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;imple &lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;odification &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;t
&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;emote &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;ransmitter) Car is a
project of interfacing two channels 27 MHz R/C Car to parallel
port of personal computer using Borland Delphi 3 Client/Server.
The car is barely remote controlled at 10-12 meters in radial
coverage and using only 2 AA type batteries. I felt bored to play
with this things so I started to modify and add some
"smart" features like keyboard controlled, motion
recording, and playback recorded track. All you need are the R/C
and the car itself, some components, cables, and DB25 male
connector + housing for interfacing to PC parallel port.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can buy the mini R/C Car or any R/C Car that is available in the market. In my case I use a $10.00 mini R/C Car from LeYu Toys - Precious. Inside the car there is a rechargeable battery and amazingly inside the remote control there is a built-in battery charger for the car's battery. So actually you just need 2 AA batteries to play with.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Buttons Combination&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As you already know, two channels radio control means that the
car can move directly forward, when we press the forward button,
backward, turning left or right, or the combination of
forward-left, forward-right, backward-left, and backward-right.
Look at the picture of remote control and truth table below:&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
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               &lt;td align="center"&gt;UP&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;DOWN&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;LEFT&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;RIGHT&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;MOVEMENT&lt;/td&gt;
           &lt;/tr&gt;

           &lt;tr&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Stop&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
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               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Forward&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
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               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Backward&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
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               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Turning left&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
           &lt;tr&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Turning right&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
           &lt;tr&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Backward left&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
           &lt;tr&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
               &lt;td align="center"&gt;Backward right&lt;/td&gt;

           &lt;/tr&gt;
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       &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Logic 1 is equal to a pressed button, so there are 7 combinations
that possibly take place. Why only 7 combinations instead of 16 ones?
Because up dan down button may not be pressed at the same time, as well as
left and right button. Also, pressing left button or right button only
may result nothing in movement at all, except a movement of the
steering mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Remote Modification&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that there are two possibilities of schematic position of
a push button inside the remote control. So, we can reduce
the possible configuration of electronic circuit as below:&lt;/p&gt;

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       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OsR8LivSI/AAAAAAAAAB4/GeEKf1nD42c/s1600-h/smartcar01.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OsR8LivSI/AAAAAAAAAB4/GeEKf1nD42c/s320/smartcar01.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144144623599533346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;Figure 1 shows that the push button is
       connected to the ground or negative battery when it is being
       pressed (logic 0). The right side of dashed-line is
       possible push button configuration inside the remote
       control. To control this kind of circuitry, we add a NPN
       transistor and a resistor on its base. Also, one wire to capture
       feedback logic.&lt;p&gt;Logic 1 activates switching, logic 0
       deactivates switching.&lt;/p&gt;
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       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OshsLivTI/AAAAAAAAACA/PL_aGYhmEU0/s1600-h/smartcar02.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OshsLivTI/AAAAAAAAACA/PL_aGYhmEU0/s320/smartcar02.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144144894182473010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;Figure 2 shows the second possible configuration, it
       connects to VCC or logic 1 when it is pressed. Add a PNP
       transistor and a resistor on the base as shown. Also, add a
       wire as feedback's reading logic to parallel port.&lt;p&gt;Logic
       1 deactivates switching, logic 0 activates switching.&lt;/p&gt;
       &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am using figure 1 as my remote has a logic 1 to activate each
button. Because of space constrain, I separate resistors from
transistors. I put resistors inside the parallel dongle, while the
transistors are placed under the board of the remote control. 
See how it looks inside my remote control below:&lt;/p&gt;

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   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OwMsLivXI/AAAAAAAAACg/sVE3-FJovPg/s1600-h/smart04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OwMsLivXI/AAAAAAAAACg/sVE3-FJovPg/s320/smart04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144148931451731314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OwasLivYI/AAAAAAAAACo/sT5xtS1UQvU/s1600-h/smart09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OwasLivYI/AAAAAAAAACo/sT5xtS1UQvU/s320/smart09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144149171969899906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The schematic of parallel port interfacing can be seen below:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;table border="0"&gt;
   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Os6sLivUI/AAAAAAAAACI/AsUXYswdMfs/s1600-h/smartcar03.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Os6sLivUI/AAAAAAAAACI/AsUXYswdMfs/s320/smartcar03.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144145323679202626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Use DB25 male and please look at the numbering pin carefully as
you may damage your PC parallel port if you make a wrong
connection. I don't take any responsibilities at all for that
matter. So, please ask your supervisor before you connect your design to
your PC to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can download the executable &lt;u&gt;smartcar.exe&lt;/u&gt; program under Windows95/98. It doesn't need installation or compiling anything to make it works. For programmers, 
you can download the Delphi Project's source code &lt;u&gt;smartcar.zip&lt;/u&gt;, write me your 
comment or email me for further info on how to build it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some hints to modify the source code:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;table border="1"&gt;
   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R/C Car Action&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;378H(write only)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;379H(read only status)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;

   &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Moving Forward&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;82H&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;240(decimal)&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
   &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Moving Forward-Left&lt;/td&gt;

       &lt;td align="center"&gt;8AH&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;224&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
   &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Moving Forward-Right&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;86H&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;208&lt;/td&gt;

   &lt;/tr&gt;
   &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Moving Backward&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;81H&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;48&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
   &lt;tr&gt;

       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Moving Backward-Left&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;89H&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;32&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
   &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Moving Backward-Right&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;85H&lt;/td&gt;

       &lt;td align="center"&gt;16&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
   &lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;Standby&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;80H&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td align="center"&gt;112&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Other Pictures and Screenshot&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br&gt;

&lt;table border="0"&gt;
   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Tg2sLiviI/AAAAAAAAAD4/RRNsPns5ULw/s1600-h/smart10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Tg2sLiviI/AAAAAAAAAD4/RRNsPns5ULw/s200/smart10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144483904541081122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Thf8LivjI/AAAAAAAAAEA/qWRAJ4HQVaw/s1600-h/smart08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Thf8LivjI/AAAAAAAAAEA/qWRAJ4HQVaw/s200/smart08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144484613210684978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TilcLivkI/AAAAAAAAAEI/uYKpl-DCgIU/s1600-h/smart05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TilcLivkI/AAAAAAAAAEI/uYKpl-DCgIU/s200/smart05.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144485807211593282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;table border="0"&gt;
   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TixsLivlI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/TjPulrv9fd8/s1600-h/smart07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TixsLivlI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/TjPulrv9fd8/s200/smart07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144486017664990802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Ti9MLivmI/AAAAAAAAAEY/bnG0qOUt7IY/s1600-h/smart06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2Ti9MLivmI/AAAAAAAAAEY/bnG0qOUt7IY/s200/smart06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144486215233486434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TjR8LivnI/AAAAAAAAAEg/lbI1r0XyPF0/s1600-h/smart03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2TjR8LivnI/AAAAAAAAAEg/lbI1r0XyPF0/s200/smart03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144486571715772018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
   &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Happy Constructing! and don't forget to leave me some comments :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-4621269850377047974?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2007/12/smart-car-version-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YsfZZljLc6s/R2OvTsLivWI/AAAAAAAAACY/O_GVf8ryXGg/s72-c/smart01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422760811493147210.post-5498407913648207422</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-15T11:15:49.970+01:00</atom:updated><title>Welcome to my blog!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;There is no other word to say to all of you except "welcome!" and please visit as many as you want. In this blog you will find some (quite) useful stuff (perhaps) that I have been doing in my life. They will not be so far from my daily activities related to electronics, robotics, computers, crazy ideas, tricky things, etc. After all this time I have been fooling around and doing experiments with some (quite) crazy stuff but I have never documented them all well. I have some websites in some local servers, but since I am moving around the world ;) they are not well updated, unmaintained web-server, and slow ftp and ssh connections from the other side of the world. So, after a little chat here and there to some friends, it turns out that I think it would be a good idea to use a blog as a replacement of my websites. Slowly, I will try to migrate bit by bit the contents in my old websites to this blog while of course I will write down the latest idea in mind.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What else I could say, this blog is free (credit goes to Google), even I can put a video for free (credit goes to YouTube), and also photo albums (credit goes to Flickr). The information technologies nowadays are really affordable and I hope this blog will bring creative ideas to you and make new innovation for us all.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Happy surfing into my blog, and don't forget to leave comments. I would love to read them!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6422760811493147210-5498407913648207422?l=ekawahyu.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://ekawahyu.blogspot.com/2007/12/welcome-to-my-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ekawahyu Susilo)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>