releases

Releases

Collection of releases for fast deployment.

How-to

This section describes how to set up the project and get it to run the fast way.

1. Pick a release below.
2. Set-up the hardware according to the connection diagram of the release
3. Download the files in the releases Drehdings/ folder
4. Open the Drehdings.ino with the Arduino IDE
5. Change the settings in the configuration section to match your set-up
6. Compile and upload to the microcontroller
7. Enjoy!

Releases

2021-03-15 Glossy Grape

A set-up with three LEDs, a rotary encoder to control the motor speed, and a push button to loop through the effects. Does not support gear ratio. Only includes a small number of effects. Mainly intended to try the configuration.

Usage:

• Turn knob of rotary encoder to start the motor and to control the motor speed.
• Use push button on rotary encoder to iterate through the LEDs' effects.

Changelog:

• switched from Encoder.h to SimpleEncoder.h library
• added Effect-class based LED effects
• fixed glitches that sometimes lead to memory leaks
• added all dependencies directly to the code to avoid Arduino IDE library version issues

Diagram: Same as for release 20210205AbsoluteZero below.

2021-03-05 Absolute Zero

A set-up with three LEDs, a rotary encoder to control the motor speed, and a push button to loop through the effects. Does not support gear ratio. Only includes a small number of effects. Mainly intended to try the configuration.

Usage:

• LED1 and LED2 will create two slowly turning images of the objects turning in opposite directions.
• Turn knob of rotary encoder to start the motor and to control the motor speed.
• Use push button on rotary encoder to alternate the third LEDs point of flicker (from 0 to 45 degree and back)

Diagram:

Create a new release

1. Make sure that the code is working well (testing)
2. Choose a name, all releases are named after colours
3. Create a folder under arduino/releases/ names YYYYMMDDColour
4. Copy the main.cpp and all library files (.h and .cpp) to a Drehdings/ subdirectory
5. Rename main.cpp to Drehdings.ino
6. Open Drehdings.ino in Arduino IDE, compile, upload, and test
7. Create a hardware connection diagram with Fritzing and export as PNG/SVG to release folder
8. Create a new release section in this file and describe the release