Iron man motorised faceplate electronics tutorial!!!

[memebr]

It is pretty simple to implement the RF control to the circuit, you just need to swap the push button for the RF module

There are several different modules, but the most common ones are those 4 channel modules.

The Arduino is linked to one of the channel pins (in our case, using the code of the 1st page, the Digital pin 2 of the Arduino will be linked to D0, D1, D2 or D3) in all cases you will still need a physical Pull-Down resistor or to use the built in Pull-UP activating it via code.

If you wanna see if the signal is being correctly received by the receiver, you can add a led on the VT pin, that will blink when the receiver is receiving any data.

as you guys can see, it is pretty simple.

 

[Gemini94]

I'm looking at some rf recievers and I'm a bit new to this stuff. Should I buy one that has momentary, toggle, or latching? I want it to work very similar like the button in the code for this faceplate where you press once to open, second press to close and so on.

 

[memebr]

The momentary type acts like a push button - when the A button is held down, the matching pin goes high. When the A button is released, the matching pin goes low. The pins only go high when a button is pressed.

The toggle type acts like an alternating toggle switch - when the A button is pressed the first time, the matching pin goes high. When the A button is pressed a second time, the matching pin goes low. The pins are turned on and off by repeated presses.

The latch type acts like a selector switch - when the A button is pressed the first time, the matching pin goes high. When the B button is pressed it turns A's pin off and turns B's pin on. When C is pressed, it turns B off, etc. Only one is on at a time. If you press the same button twice, it doesn't turn that pin off.

So, now that you know it, you can pretty much see that you need a Momentary type RF Receiver (SC2272-M4)

 

[xl97]

imho...


it doesnt matter..

you change the code to suit your needs..

you 'can' use whatever..

 

[Gemini94]

Ok, thanks for the help

 

[made007]

Do i need to have a certain type of switch or any tact switch?
Im wiring everything from the start again but if i hit the switch sometimes it wont do anything

 

[memebr]

imho...


it doesnt matter..

you change the code to suit your needs..

you 'can' use whatever..

The guys here pretty much just grab the code on the 1st page and thats it, so, to use with the code on the 1st page a Momentary RF Receiver would fit them needs without changing anything on the code.

but for you and me and maybe another one or two lost souls in this thread, any RF receiver would fill the gap.

Do i need to have a certain type of switch or any tact switch?
Im wiring everything from the start again but if i hit the switch sometimes it wont do anything

to use with the code on the 1st page, you need a normally open push button or tac

 

[made007]

The guys here pretty much just grab the code on the 1st page and thats it, so, to use with the code on the 1st page a Momentary RF Receiver would fit them needs without changing anything on the code.

but for you and me and maybe another one or two lost souls in this thread, any RF receiver would fill the gap.



to use with the code on the 1st page, you need a normally open push button or tac

I have one but when i push it it does nothing

 

[made007]

I think i erased the code somehow, gonna try everything from the beginning, ill let know what happens here

 

[made007]

The guys here pretty much just grab the code on the 1st page and thats it, so, to use with the code on the 1st page a Momentary RF Receiver would fit them needs without changing anything on the code.

but for you and me and maybe another one or two lost souls in this thread, any RF receiver would fill the gap.



to use with the code on the 1st page, you need a normally open push button or tac

I solved the problem i used wrong ohm resistor, now its working good, my problem now is that everything works great in the breadboard but when i try to hardwire everything the switch does nothing and the resistor got very hot, so i unplugged the power, i know im doing something wrong
And i know its the way i wired the switch, but its wired as it was in the breadboard, im confused, sorry, im a noob in electronics
I put the orientation of the switch as said, but i think im soldering it wrong

Heres pics

Heres everything working fine

And video

 

[msleeper]

Use Youtube for videos, photobucket is awful.

 

[guenthner0315]

finally found one

 

[yanhan]

Thanks to :
7sinzz for open this thread
Code designer (which i forget is from which RPF member)
xl97 & memebr for those awesome circuit design...!!

without you guy, i wont able to finish my motorized.

Thankssss!

 

[xl97]

welcome for the code & advice & diagrams!

 

[msleeper]

For anyone on the fence about servos, I just received these HS-56HBs from servocity and they are powerful and incredibly tiny:

 

[made007]

The resistor is right bro, its a 10K ohms resistor! If you use a 10ohms resistor it will get pretty hot and burn.
The dude on the 1st post said 10ohms but in the pictures he is using a 10K ohms resistor.

you need to pay attention on what TAC button you are using, the button needs to be normally open.

also see if you are wiring to the right pins on arduino, see if the orientation of the push button is right, try another push button, check all the connections to see if its not any kind of discontinue current or bad contact on the circuit.

Mmm kind of missed that, you think if i change my resistor ill fix this?
In the breadboard was working fine with the 10ohms
Then i solder eveything and its does as you said, it gets very hot and no function when button is pressed

 

[made007]

I went tru 37 pages already and saw some stuff i was doing wrong, ill try aain during the week, i still need to finish reading this

 

[wgering]

This is amazing. Bookmarked for my eventual Mk VII build.

 

[xl97]

I went tru 37 pages already and saw some stuff i was doing wrong, ill try aain during the week, i still need to finish reading this

only a few more pages to go!!!!

 

[made007]

only a few more pages to go!!!!

Yes
I should have done that beore posting
Pretty good info here