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Re: idea for Arduino off-season project

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post

Inexpensive and portable wheel speed controller for use during shooter development. Use for exploring, developing, demonstrating, and tuning speed control algorithms:
Decode the signal from a counter on a spinning wheel, compute RPM, feed the computed RPM and a setpoint into a control algorithm which computes motor command, and generate an output PWM signal corresponding to that motor command.
Does an Arduino have what it takes to do this?


Certainly, the arduino has more than enough power to run a simple PI loop for speed. It is actually better than a raspberry pi as it is a real time
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