10 August 2005 - MICROCONTROLLERS (original) (raw)

02:58 pm

wow. i started this community a while ago... i thought no one would ever join it.

well, since ive been in oklahoma in training for the air force for about 7 months i havent had any time to play with my micros. until now. my latest project- traction control for my car. i'm using a silabs c8051f350 http://www.silabs.com/public/documents/tpub_doc/dshort/Microcontrollers/Precision_Mixed-Signal/en/C8051F350_Short.pdf

my program measures the revolutions of the drive wheels and the non-driven wheels. if the difference reaches a certain level (indicating a certain amount of tire slip) it cuts engine spark momentarilly to keep the tires from spinning beyond a rate that can be controlled. the cool part? i have a little dial on the dashboard that i can adjust the amount of traction. there is still some bugs though. i'm at the library right now so i dont have the program but i'll see if i can bring it over on my cool new USB jumpdrive.

thanks for keepin it alive, guys