Meadow.Foundation.Motors.ElectronicSpeedController 1.3.2.2-beta

Meadow.Foundation.Motors.ElectronicSpeedController

PWM Electronic speed controller

The ElectronicSpeedController library is designed for the Wilderness Labs Meadow .NET IoT platform and is part of Meadow.Foundation

The Meadow.Foundation peripherals library is an open-source repository of drivers and libraries that streamline and simplify adding hardware to your C# .NET Meadow IoT application.

For more information on developing for Meadow, visit developer.wildernesslabs.co, to view all Wilderness Labs open-source projects, including samples, visit github.com/wildernesslabs

Usage

Frequency frequency = new Frequency(50, Frequency.UnitType.Hertz);
const float armMs = 0.5f;
const float powerIncrement = 0.05f;

ElectronicSpeedController esc;
RotaryEncoderWithButton rotary;

public override Task Initialize()
{
    Resolver.Log.Info("Initialize...");

    rotary = new RotaryEncoderWithButton(Device.Pins.D07, Device.Pins.D08, Device.Pins.D06);
    rotary.Rotated += RotaryRotated;
    rotary.Clicked += (s, e) =>
    {
        Resolver.Log.Info($"Arming the device.");
        esc.Arm();
    }; ;

    esc = new ElectronicSpeedController(Device.Pins.D02, frequency);

    Resolver.Log.Info("Hardware initialized.");

    return base.Initialize();
}

private void RotaryRotated(object sender, RotaryChangeResult e)
{
    esc.Power += (e.New == RotationDirection.Clockwise) ? powerIncrement : -powerIncrement;
    DisplayPowerOnLed(esc.Power);

    Resolver.Log.Info($"New Power: {esc.Power * (float)100:n0}%");
}

/// <summary>
/// Displays the ESC power on the onboard LED as full red @ `100%`,
/// blue @ `0%`, and a proportional mix, in between those speeds.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="power"></param>
void DisplayPowerOnLed(float power)
{
    // `0.0` - `1.0`
    int r = (int)ExtensionMethods.Map(power, 0f, 1f, 0f, 255f);
    int b = (int)ExtensionMethods.Map(power, 0f, 1f, 255f, 0f);

    var color = Color.FromRgb(r, 0, b);
}

public override Task Run()
{
    DisplayPowerOnLed(esc.Power);

    return base.Run();
}