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have you considered slowing down the clock? it could be that you are experiencing an instability issue similar to positive feedback, the fix might be as simple as adding a delay in series with the coil drives..
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Hey I saw your project at Reno ISEF yesterday! On my way home to Colorado and am at a hotel and thought I'd check the forum and there's your project! Great job!
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have you considered slowing down the clock? it could be that you are experiencing an instability issue similar to positive feedback, the fix might be as simple as adding a delay in series with the coil drives..
I have never considered adding lag to the system, it seems to me like a faster feedback loop would always be best. It would be easy to slow it down sometime to test your idea tho, so I will if I have time to.
Hey I saw your project at Reno ISEF yesterday! On my way home to Colorado and am at a hotel and thought I'd check the forum and there's your project! Great job!
Thanks! ISEF is always lots of fun.
Can you choose WHERE it levitates? Did you make software to choose the X Y Z coordinates? I can't tell where you got the PCB and the materials.. its so pretty. edit - OHHHH and can the contraption be upside down and still work???? And do you have schematicness?
Yes. The software tells the levitator where 0,0,0 is and I can move the object in real time. I designed the PCB in eagle and had Gold Phoenix make it. The transparent material is polycarbonate that I milled to shape. It will work in any orientation with limited capacity with proper calibration. Sure.
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Hello Chris ,
I am a college student from China. You have done many beauitiful thing and I have much interesting about the levitator. I want to make one by myself. Now I have successful to make it floated. But I don't know how to move it . I saw your video that you can move it left , right, front, back also up and down, how to make it ??
I know you have used four hall from your SCH. Two hall was used to detect the X,Y direction And the third hall was used to detect the Z direction. What is the fourth hall used for???
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