R/C helicopter lights, Revision A.5
Atmel is going to personally revoke my electrical engineering license if they ever find out what’s in that yellow heat-shrink blob, but I now have a shiny new 5 gram version of my helicopter light kit =D
This version has all the same remote-control dimming and strobe capabilities of the heavier Revision A. The only practical drawback is that it isn’t quite as bright.
great lights dude
I found out your space serching on google for lights for my RC hely (lama v4). Yours are the best lights I’ve seen by far !
I saw your code, and gave a look at the schematic, I’m not that good at electronics, but I think I could clone (if you let me first) your idea in my lama.
But first, could you explain how (or what software should I use) to compile the .c into a .hex?
Is there a attiny DIY programmer on the net? would this one work? http://attiny.com/photos.htm
thanks.
Re: great lights dude
>I found out your space serching on google for lights for my RC hely
> (lama v4). Yours are the best lights I’ve seen by far !
Thanks!
> I saw your code, and gave a look at the schematic, I’m not that good
> at electronics, but I think I could clone (if you let me first) your
> idea in my lama.
Of course
> But first, could you explain how (or what software should I use) to
> compile the .c into a .hex?
Use AVR-GCC, the AVR port of the popular GCC compiler collection.
If you use Windows, you can get binaries at:
http://winavr.sourceforge.net/
There are a lot of instructions on the ‘net about getting started with AVRs and AVR-GCC.
Programming this firmware should be pretty straightforward. Just make sure you set the chip’s fuses properly. You want to use the internal 8 MHz oscillator without the divide-by-8, so that the final CPU frequency is 8 MHz.
> Is there a attiny DIY programmer on the net? would this one work?
> http://attiny.com/photos.htm
Looks like it should. I used an old JTAG parallel port dongle, which is very similar to this thing.
Good luck!
–Micah