Lighting a model runway with a Yocto-Color-V2

By seb, in DIY, november 17,2017.

The guys at Yoctopuce love rc modeling and particularly everything that flies. Unfortunately in Winter, the sun goes down early and flying sessions at the end of the day often finish up in the dark. We decided to build a small lighted landing runway that we could control from a smart phone.

Simulating large current consumption

By martinm, in DIY, november 10,2017.

When you perform endurance tests with electronic circuits, you sometimes need to simulate a large current consumption. At first sight, this seems rather trivial, but don't get it wrong: there are a few hidden pitfalls which are only waiting for you to make a mistake in order to sabotage your experiment. This week, we show you how we built a small box with a consumption that we can drive by USB.

New stuff for the Yocto-3D-V2

By mvuilleu, in New stuff, november 03,2017.

In a previous post, we showed the effects of magnetic and gyroscopic perturbations on the inertial sensor of the Yocto-3D-V2. The standard method used for sensor data fusion could in some cases find itself undermined, to the point of making the measures useless. Therefore, we recently added in the Yocto-3D-V2 firmware the possibility to choose between several fusion methods, in order to enlarge the application range where this product can be used.

How to begin with Yoctopuce devices on Linux

By seb, in For the beginners, october 29,2017.

This week we continue our series of articles "For the beginners". We provide the answer the two most frequently asked questions regarding Linux: Why does the executable not work? And, why do I get the error message "the user has insufficient permissions to access USB devices" ?

How to begin with the data logger of Yoctopuce sensors

By martinm, in Programming and For the beginners, october 20,2017.

Almost all the Yoctopuce sensors are equipped with a data logger. We already wrote on this subject several times, but this week we give you an overview in the framework on our for the beginners series. Follow the guide...